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30. Ely Parker said it best when he told some Native Americans "You have the rights the white man grants

I believe Ely Parker said that to the Osage (I can NOT find the exact quote at the present time) but Ely Parker, a full blooded Seneca, was informing his fellow Native Americans what they rights were. Those rights were what the Whites were willing to give to them, no more, no less for the Native Americans were to weak to fight for more.

Ely Parker became a General during the Civil War and served in U.S. Grant's staff. Grant later appointed him the First Native American Head of the Indian Bureau (A job he resigned two years later over accusations of corruption, proved false at that time but he still had to resign. The accusation were made by people who disliked his and Grant's policy of peace with Native Americans.

For more on Ely Parker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_S._Parker

The military agents were to prepare Indians to submit to the inevitable change of their mode of life to pursuits more congenial to a civilized state. You will endeavor to keep constantly before their minds the pacific intentions of the government, and obtain their confidence by acts of kindness and honesty and justly dealing with them, thereby securing the peace which it is the wish of all good citizens to establish and maintain.

http://mbuggieh.hubpages.com/hub/ELY_PARKER_NATIVE_AMERICAN_HISTORY_CIVIL_WAR

http://mms.newberry.org/html/Parker.html