t, and all their warriors dead, the reluctantly gave into the U.S. government. One by one, the tribes were tricked into trusting the white man. This trust almost always resulted in death for the Indians. However, under the direction of President Grant, Ely Parker or Donehogwa, a Seneca Indian, was appointed the as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. (Brown, 177) Despite his efforts, the crooked U.S. government could not be overcome. He could not make peace between the whites and the Sioux, Cheyenne and other remaining tribes. The Indians believed it was wrong to sell their land. They believed it was theirs and a price could not be put on the fields where they lived, cultivated crops and hunted buffalo. Donehogwa best summed up Indian dissatisfaction by saying, " Although this country was once wholly inhabited by Indians, the tribes, and many of them once powerful, who occupied the countries now constituting the states east of the Mississippi, have, one by one, been exterminated in their abortive attempts to stem the western march of civilizationIf any tribe remonstrated against the violation of their natural and treaty rights, members of the tribe were inhumanly shot down and the whole treated as mere dogsIt is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the re...
