In chapter 4 “Toward “The Stony Mountains”” Takaki Explains how were Native American’s land was taken and how they were forced to abandon there homes. In addition, he spelled out how the federal claimed to want to help Indians to survive by accepting the reality of European taking over America, but the laws that was initiated by the government were only pushing native American further west. Takaki wrote, “He supported the efforts of Mississippi and Georgia to abolish Indian tribal units and allow white settlers to take cultivated Indian lands.”(Page 81). The writer was referring to the president Jackson who was elected in 1828. By encouraging white settlers to take over most land in America and the near extinction hunting of buffalo, had to