Differences Between Native Americans And Ojibwe

The Native American have not had the easy way of obtaining land that was actually theirs to begin with. The following topics will be why the Dakota Indians have communities instead of reservations, ways that have made the Dakota historical experience different from that of the Ojibwe, and the barriers that the Dakota communities faced that were similar to the Ojibwe. Also about why treaties matter so much to the Native Americans. The Dakota Indians were forced to move many different times before they actually got settled in one place. The Dakota communities started in 1851 when the Fort Laramie Treaty gave the Dakota a ten-mile strip of land that was on both sides of the Minnesota River. This was supposed to be a permanent spot for them to
reside, but then they were forced to leave Minnesota land in 1862 because of the Homestead Act. Then some of the Dakota people started to come back to their communities in Minnesota, but only portions of the land they were able to get back. The reason as to why the Dakota Indians have communities instead of reservations because they only got part of their land back that they original had before they were kicked out. They also had to rebuild their communities since nothing was left of them. The Dakota Indians have faced many historical differences than that of the Ojibwe.
As mentioned earlier, the Dakota were confined to a strip of land that was only ten miles. They have really no way of spreading themselves out in that little space of where they were all supposed to be living. The Dakota Indians had to move their villages based on the season according to the work that was needed to be accomplished and the different hunting seasons. The Dakota also only have four communities in which to live in. Compared to the Ojibwe, they did not have to move for food, they have seven different reservations for each of the different tribes to live on and had space for people to live farther apart. The four Dakota tribes that still reside in Minnesota have always been in Minnesota. The Ojibwe Indians were originally from Wisconsin and Michigan areas and were forced to move towards Minnesota when the settlers first started
coming. The Dakota communities were similar in some ways similar to that of the Ojibwe. Both of the tribes were chased off of their original land and then they were given specific plots or area of land that they could call their own. The Dakota and the Ojibwe both had to trade land with the settlers in order to get the supplies that were needed before they were assigned specific land from the government. The children from both tribes were forced to go to boarding schools to obtain an education that was taught by the settlers, so the settlers could strip the children away from their native culture. Both the Dakota and Ojibwe have control of their lands, they each have their own government system, laws and regulations, police, and other services. The Native Americans have not always liked treaties.
When the settlers always had treaties for the Indians to sign, but the Native Americans never knew what they said on them because they were always written in English. The Indians just usually signed them to get the settlers to stop nagging them for signatures or the settlers would have interrupters who were paid by them to translate to the Indians what the treaty said, but often times the information that the Indians were given was false so that the settlers would end up getting more land anyways. Now treaties do matter to the Native Americans. Treaties have set the foundation as to where the Indians are today and recognize the Indian tribes as sovereign nations. The treaties also say that the Indians have the authority and control over all people and activities that happen on their territorial land. Treaties to the Native Americans are the “Supreme Law of the Land” that binds the Native Americans
together. The Dakota and Ojibwe have many differences and similarities. They have differences and also similarities over their land, and how they obtained their land, and by the way that they were treated. The paper that has held together all of the Native Americans are the treaties and without those treaties who knows what our land would look like today.