Ojibwa Vs Lakota

As the United States was expanding westward in the mid-1800s, many Indian tribes in the Midwest were being encountered by the American government, who wanted to take over their lands. Through a series of treaties, the United States experienced great success in obtaining these lands that they desired. Two of the tribes affected by this were the Ojibwa and the Lakota. While there are similarities in their experiences, there are also many differences. The first treaty negotiated between the United States and the Ojibwa was the treaty of 1837. Prior to this treaty, the Fort Crawford meeting mapped out the area where the Ojibwa people were and set clear boundaries between them and the Dakota, who were feuding with one another. In this treaty,
First of all, the treaties were mostly fueled by the United States desire for westward expansion, land, and money. In the Ojibwa’s case, the United States was looking to capitalize on the area’s pine and copper and in the Lakota case, they were looking for gold, and area for miners and settlers to live. Along with this, in both cases, the United States came in and separated tribes that were feuding. For the Ojibwa, the establishment of Fort Snelling and the Crawford meeting were attempts by the United States to stop the feuding between the Ojibwa and the Dakota. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1871 separated the four tribes in the Plains – the Lakota, the Crow, the Cheyenne, and the Arapahoe – from fighting by putting them on separate reservations. In both tribe’s treaty making process, the Americans clearly had the upper hand. They had more resources, land, men, and power. They used this to their advantage and the Indians knew it. In many cases they felt pressured to sign treaties. For example Henry Dodge pressured the Ojibwa chief Flat Mouth to hurry up and sign the treaty even though Chief Buffalo had not arrived yet. In the Lakota case, they did not really want to sign the treaties but the power of the United States frightened them and they knew that if they did not sign the treaties, that the United States would do what they want anyways. That is why
The first being that the Ojibwa never had to leave Wisconsin, while the Lakota were moved around quite a bit more. They were completely kicked out of Wyoming, Montana and Minnesota through the treaties. Secondly, in the case of the Ojibwa, members from both the tribe and the American government discussed before creating a treaty in all three treaties. However, in the Lakota treaties, they were already written before the United States even brought it up to the tribes. The Lakota didn’t really get anything that they wanted, they were just being told what to do. And finally, it was a much more brutal and violent with the Lakota than it was with the Ojibwa. The United State was out to kill the Lakota and completely remove them, however with the Ojibwa it was more about getting access to their land than it was about eliminating them. There were no acts of violence between the Ojibwa and the United States. Not everything was done fairly, but there was very little blood spilled. However, in the Lakota case, it was very violent. Officer Custer was very brutal in how he killed the Indians, the United States used starvation to control the Indians, and the ultimate goal was to break their spirit and culture or to kill