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= Peace Plans =

Dawes Act
This act stated that 160 acres of land would be give to any Indian family for 25 years. The catch was, this land would have to be farmed the "white way", and the Indians would have to turn to white culture. Turning these Indians to the white way of life was called assimilation This Act Failed. It failed simply because the Indians believed that owning land was like owning god, and you can't own god. Also, the Indians took great pride i their religion and their way of life, so they weren't about to change everything for white men. "If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">he would have made me so in the first place" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Sitting Bull. =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Treaty of Fort Laramie-  = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Treaty of Fort Laramie was put together when the <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">BozemanTrail that ran right through the Sioux's hunting <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ground was closed. It stated the Sioux would move to a <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">reservation along the Missouri River. Other Sioux leaders <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">signed the treaty but, Sitting Bull leader of the Hunkpapa <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sioux, did not. However, the Treaty said that the Sioux <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">would move to the Black Hills. Gen. Custer brought in <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">miners into the Black Hills to look for gold, and soon invaded <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the Sioux "reserved" land. The Army was forced to take <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">action against any wondering groups of Sioux who were <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">hunting in the Black Hills. This went against the treaty but <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the constant fighting over the Black Hills didn't stop until <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the U.S finally confiscated the land, and we were back to <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">square one.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle."-Sitting Bull

=<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Why didn't this phase succeed? = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This phase didn't suceed because the Americans <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">didn't take peace with the Indians seriously. The <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">talk of peace was just a way to contain the "Indian <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">problem" that we had. The treaties we attempted <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">were just broken; by us. And all plans of peace <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">were just pretty much destroyed. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps"-Sitting Bull

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How did the White and Indian culture differ?
<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A better question would be how didn't the two <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">cultures differ. Whites who lived in Amercia at <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the time were almost all Christian, so they believed <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">in one God who created everything. The Indians <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">believed in several gods, the most important god <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">being Earth Mother. The gods gave them all they media type="youtube" key="IEjipaS75WM?fs=1" height="292" width="364" align="right" <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">needed on Earth, which ment they didn't own <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">anything and they shared everything. Whites used <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">money, but since the Indians didn't own anything <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">there was no use for money. Also Indians did many <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">different kinds of dances that ment many things. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They had dances for hope (Ghost Dance), they had <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">dances for rain, they even had war dances. They had <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">such faith in their religion and their dances, that one <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of the shirts they wore during a dance called the ghost <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">shirt, was believed to stop bullets. Whites on the other <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">hand thought this was rediculous. So, as you can tell the <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">two cultures deffinitly clashed and differed. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">Go To Buffalo Slaughter Page