ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎾᏘᏂᏙᎯ ᎤᎬᏫᏳ Ross ᏃᎴ ᎦᏄᎾᏓᎴᎩ, ᏱᏭᏂᎷᏣ ᏩᏏᏓᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ, ᎤᏂᏃᎮᏗ ᎠᏂᎦᏘᎴᎬ ᎨᎬᏬᎣᏙᏗ, ᎤᏂᏐᏱᏉ ᎨᏎ ᏄᏍᏛ ᏄᎾᏍᏛ ᎤᎾᏟᏂᎩᏓ.
When the leaders of the Cherokee, Chief Ross and Major Ridge, came up to Washington City to lobby against removal, they were a source of deep racial confusion to those in power.