Would Lincoln use drones?

[think]

11. And it didn't help much that the US Govt repeatedly violated treaties

it had legally entered into with the Native American people.

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)

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The treaty produced a brief period of peace, but it was broken by the failure of the United States to prevent the mass emigration of settlers and miners during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush into the territories of the native nations as identified. The US government chose not to enforce the treaty to keep out the emigrants, although its economic wealth certainly allowed it to do so.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_%281851%29

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

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Repeated violations of the otherwise exclusive rights to the land by gold prospectors led to the Black Hills War. Migrant workers seeking gold had crossed the reservation borders, in violation of the treaty. Indians had assaulted these gold prospectors, in violation of the treaty, and war ensued. The U.S. government seized the Black Hills land in 1877.

More than a century later, the Sioux nation won a victory in court. On June 30, 1980, in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians,[2] the United States Supreme Court upheld an award of $15.5 million for the market value of the land in 1877, along with 103 years worth of interest at 5 percent, for an additional $105 million. The Lakota Sioux, however, refused to accept payment and instead demanded the return of their territory from the United States.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_%281868%29