The US government failed to enforce treaties and settlers encroached on Cherokee land

Evidence

Even so, in the years after the treaties were signed at Hopewell, the situation deteriorated for the tribal nations. Almost immediately, in clear violation of the agreements, American citizens expanded their footprint on Southern soil by crossing tribal borders and establishing homesteads and businesses that evolved into settlements and towns. The flood of settlers—many of them men with weapons—washed through the forests and mountains, threatening the safety, hunting grounds, and livelihood of Native peoples. Furious about the injustice of white encroachment and the failure of the states and the national government to uphold the terms of the treaties, resistant Chickamauga Cherokees relocated to a Tennessee River stronghold and from there launched a series of guerrilla attacks. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 477

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• XREF: connects to: Treaties guaranteed Onondaga rights that the US government then violated — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1163