How would you feel and what might you do if freedoms that you enjoy, such as moving to a different city, were taken away? If you were a member of the government imposing the laws, how might you prepare for the reactions of the people?

He was also a slaveholder, and established a successful plantation in Indian Territory. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Watie wasted no time in joining the Confederacy, viewing the federal government, not the South, as the Cherokees’ principal enemy. He raised the first Cherokee regiment of the Confederate Army, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles, and helped secure control of Indian Territory for the rebels early in the conflict.