"While other Indigenous American peoples were being kicked off their lands, the Cherokee fought against removal and even won a U.S. Supreme Court case. However, the state of Georgia passed laws that hurt the Cherokee Nation, ripping homes away from Cherokee people" (Krakow, 2019).

In the paragraph above, the BLUE highlighted sentence is an example of (the whole sentence is blue

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The blue highlighted sentence is an example of historical injustice or displacement. It illustrates the struggle of the Cherokee Nation against removal from their lands and the adverse effects of state laws on their community despite a Supreme Court ruling in their favor. This highlights the conflict between legal rights and state actions that perpetuated the marginalization of Indigenous peoples.