What is the meaning of the Cherokee Memorial? What is its historical significance?

There
were several memorials sent by the Cherokee nation in the nineteenth century to the United
States Congress. These memorials were sent to petition congress to take action against the
infringement on Cherokee rights and lands by the state of Georgia and by Andrew Jackson. The
first of the series of Cherokee Memorials was a petition written and sent to the United States
21st Congress in 1829 by members of the Cherokee Nation. The letter was sent specifically by
The Cherokee Phoenix, a newspaper written and operated by members of the
Cherokee Nation.

They petitioned Congress to defend and protect the Cherokee
people from Andrew Jackson's plan to forcibly remove Cherokee people from their lands and move
them into lands west of the Mississippi River. They also wanted to arrest Georgia's attempts to
exert control and ownership over Cherokee lands. The memorial was tabled by House Speaker,
Andrew Stevenson, on February 8th, 1830. These memorials were an attempt by the Cherokee to
legally...