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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: course of life.
[Footnote u: In 1829 the State of Alabama divided the Creek
territory into counties, and subjected the Indian population to
the power of European magistrates.
Chapter XVIII: Future Condition Of Three Races - Part III
In 1830 the State of Mississippi assimilated the Choctaws
and Chickasaws to the white population, and declared that any of
them that should take the title of chief would be punished by a
fine of $1,000 and a year's imprisonment. When these laws were
enforced upon the Choctaws, who inhabited that district, the
tribe assembled, their chief communicated to them the intentions
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