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or many, the West represented a chance for a new life. But for America’s Indigenous peoples, the push westward resulted in quite the opposite experience. The story of the Cherokee people, the single largest Native American group in the Southeast, provides just one example of the mistreatment of North American Indigenous peoples during this time.