ory and legend. Their names would become as well known as those of the men who tried to destroy them. Most of them, young and old, would be driven into the ground long before the symbolic end of Indian freedom came at Wounded Knee in December, 1890 (Brown 12).
The federal Indian policy of the U.S. government had a profound effect on tribal governments and has changed dramatically over the last two centuries, creating turmoil for tribal governments. In the late 1700s, the U.S. treated the indian tribes as independent sovereign nations. in the mid-1800s, the federal government more and more attacked traditional tribal governments, and the
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