Broken Treaties Quotes
Wayne played so many parts depicting whites in the process of expanding Westward that many people saw him as an expert on the history of the Westward Expansion. He did not comment on the whites who then kept huge ranches “selfishly” for themselves or those who selfishly would not share the mineral rich land that they had taken with anyone including the original Indian owners. So in this view, the Indians should have not been capitalists but they should have been socialists and shared their resources.
Prior, the Military, worked hard to enforce the Fort Laramie Treaty which gave the Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe exclusive use of the Black Hills. Bu then gold was accidentally found in the Black Hills and white miners started to illegally enter the Lakota territory. Many of them killed Indians that they ran across. See Quotation 643700. President Grant, under huge political pressure instructed General Sheridan to stop enforcing the provisions of the treaty and keep the whites out of the Black Hills. They idea was to allow the miners to clash with the Lakota who would likely defend their sacred land, and when some whites had been killed, send the army in to “pacify” the Indians and use that as a means of relegation of the Treaty so the the gold areas would bee legally accessible.
The general offered Geronimo a house and land to him and his followers if they surrendered. The Indian chief observed that such promises had been made and broken before by the whites. The Indians surrendered. They were shackled and deported to Florida.
This comprehensive report of 457 pages was written, printed and distributed at her expense prior to her Federal appointment.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson, institution one of the most unjust, immoral and outrageous policies in all of American history. He ordered that all the Indians of the Southeast, be forcibly evicted from their lands—including those protected by treaties—and at gunpoint marched by the military to the Oklahoma territory, where they were in effect jailed in reservations that were generally far inferior to the lands from which they were forced. No sooner had the ethnic cleasing of the South East been complete, than the whites took the Indian lands without paying the Indian owners at all.
Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills lands that were sacred to the Lakota Sioux and were reserved for exclusive use of the Indians by the Fort Laramie Treaty. Greedy whites, ignoring the treaty provisions not only entered the Black Hills to pan and mine for the gold, but killed many Indians they ran across Sherman was angry and wrote to his old friend President Grant. Grant, now a political, had to contend with public opinion that thought it absurd that gold should not be mined because a few Indians regarded the land as sacred. Meanwhile Grant was working with a few others to portray minor clashes between whites and Indians in the Black Hills as violent and dangerous Indians breaking the treaty.
