Which is an accurate description of a tactic used by the cherokees to keep white settlers from taking their land

The correct answer is that they destroyed their lands to make more seem to be worthless to the whites. The accurate description of a tactic that had been used by the Cherokees to keep the white settlers from taking their land is that they destroyed it to makes it seem more worthless. 

The island had air fields the the u.s military needed.