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Based on this excerpt, how I would describe the experiences of the Cherokee during their removal is miserable because in the beginning it says, "helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes" and also helpless. The text says,  "Many of these helpless people did not have blankets and many of them had been driven from home barefooted." and "They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold, and exposure."