For example, for some nations, certain geographic or topographical features have deep religious and ceremonial significance. This concept is known as “sacred geography”. For example, in the Cherokee religion, it is believed that evidence of past religious events (e.g. the creation of the Cherokee people) can still be seen in the physical landscape of what is now known as the southeastern United States. When the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1831 that the Cherokee Nation fell under the plenary power of the United States, it paved the way for the removal of the Cherokee and other nations to land west of the Mississippi River, which, at that time, did not it was so desirable. to the American colonists. Not only were Native Americans forced to walk hundreds of miles in deplorable conditions removed, but in doing so they were forced to leave behind centuries of ancestral burials, sacred geography, and overall, forcibly separated from a landscape that was a part central to theirs