Chuck Hoskin Jr. was elected Cherokee Nation Principal Chief in 2019. We took a lot of steps to resist removal. One of the things we did was to tell our story that we had been here before there was a United States. That we had a rightful claim to the land and its resources. That the assertion of the laws of states like Georgia to our people and on our land was just wrong. –Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation Principal Chief After reading Hoskin's statement, what inference can you make about the Indian Removal Act? Check all that apply. Many Indigenous people resisted giving up their lands when settlers arrived. The Cherokee, and other Indigenous peoples, have lived in the present-day US for at least hundreds of years. Georgia and other states had the legal right to remove the Cherokee and other Indigenous nations.