For one thing he was directed by the administration to execute Article IX of the Treaty of Ghent. This article stated that all possessions taken from the Indians subsequent to 1811 must be returned. Automatically that required Jackson to return approximately 23 million acres of land he tore from the Creek Nation at the conclusion of the Creek War. But Sharp Knife had no intention of returning the land. He blithely ignored Article IX and simply continued his policy of removing the Indians from the surrendered lands. And nobody stopped him, nobody dared.
