The Cherokee Native American tribe, living within the State of Georgia, were suffering under recently passed laws in the year of 1828 that stripped Cherokee Native Americans of their rights, as well as authorized their removal from their land within Georgia. To counteract this, the tribe, attempted to utilize prior signed treaties between their tribe, referred to as a nation, and the United States. However their efforts had no impact when speaking with the President, Andrew Jackson, or Congress.

This location in modern-day is a city in Oklahoma called Tahlequah. Tahlequah currently is the site of a reservation for the Cherokee nation. This place was where the Cherokee people could finally settle after their miserable and painful forced trek across the country after President Andrew Jackson's signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 uprooted their lives.