Validity," since this means that the claims are "valid" and therefore come from reliable and trustworthy sources
Basically, the result was taking land away from them. The treaties were understood differently by the parties, Ojibwe believed that they would be giving rights to white settlers to use the land which belonged to everyone and it was a common ground for all. The white population believed that the Ojibwe were ceding land to them as land was viewed as a commodity that could be fully owned. This resulted in Ojibwe losing a lot of its land since the contracts were often vague and easily exploited.<span />
Hi. I am not sure if there's more information about your post but I went ahead and research for more similar posts so I can better provide an answer. If you are referring to the passage from Chapter CXLVIII where it talks about the Indian Removal Act, here are my answers:
The research question that this document could help me answer would be:
Why did the United States government want to relocate the native Americans from their lands?
The document could help answer my question because it explains to why they are going to relocate the Natives. Here's the actual document that I found:
An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That is shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any sate or organized territory and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as the easily distinguished from every other...
It has alot of affect because if you have no setting the reader is confused like if two people split up and they are doing different things the reader wont know who is doing what.
