US Role In Tribal Sovereignty

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What is Tribal Sovereignty? Tribal sovereignty can be defined as the right of tribes to govern themselves and basically have power to regulate themselves, and their own tribes business and domestic relations. Tribal Sovereignty is something that Native Americans have fought very hard to preserve. Throughout the years, the U.S government has tried to enact policies and laws to try and limit the amount of tribal sovereignty that certain tribes have. This paper will argue how and what laws the U.S government tried to place on Indians to try and take away their tribal sovereignty. To prove this, this paper will consider the numerous laws that the U.S government tried to put on Indian tribes to limit their tribal sovereignty, the Marshal Trilogy and its role in Tribal Sovereignty.…show more content…
The reason for this is because the land that the Indians were occupying, was land that white southerners wanted so that they could grow cotton. So many of these white settlers pressured the federal government to get these Indians away from the territory because they were “in the way of progress. So in 1830, President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act. This act forced Indians to give up their land east of the Mississippi so that the could claim the land west of the Mississippi. Some people refused to move their locations, so President Jackson forced them to leave. It was stated that this act was supposed to help the Indian tribes and that it would help them get away from whites that would harass them. Yet, this act did not help these Indian tribes but limit their tribal sovereignty. Under this act, the Indian tribes had to abide by what the government said. They had no say whether they wanted to leave, they were just forced to leave. This severely impacted the tribal sovereignty of the native American
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