The late 1800’s were a time of critical change for both white settlers and Native Americans. By the mid 1800’s, the United States government was starting to put in place a series of treaties to try and keep the whites and Native Americans in separate territories. These treaties served to ensure the Indians a certain amount of land and therefore putting that land off limits to all settlers. By 1851 many treaties had been accepted and …showed first 75 words of 966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 966 total…get what is rightfully theirs; after all they were here first. Bibliography The Dakota Sioux. 12 December 2001. The 4th Moon. 9 September 2002. <http://4thmoon.com/native/ dakota_sioux.htm> Johnson, Dale A. Flandreau Santee Sioux History. Dakota Wesleyan University. 9 September 2002. <http://www.flandreau.k12.sd.us/~eldersspeak/Web%20Html/Santee_ htm/santee_sioux_history.htm> Bourland, Gregg J. Treaty of 1851, Fort Laramie with the Sioux. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. 9 September 2002. <http://www.sioux.org/treaty_of_1851.htm