Failed Attempt to Grant Native Americans Citizenship

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That Welsh is the same guy who pushed through the Congress the matter of no further recognition of treaties in 1872. That left hundreds of unratified treaties collecting dust somewhere.

Ely Parker was a good guy in a bad swamp.
 

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Honest folks always get eaten up by the 'gators in grubment, excepting if you know where and how to work the ropes.
Quite true - and sometimes just touching the ropes means lowering your standards. The depth of corruption at that time was astounding - Welsh and others weren't about to let some 'savage' hang them out to dry!
 

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Is not notice that Parker and Grant friendship ended in flames.... Grant never looks back...

Sadly, the friendship between Parker and the president came undone along with Grant’s Indian policy. After resigning his post in 1871 and moving away from Washington, Parker saw Grant only twice more. When the former president lay dying in the summer of 1885, Parker came to visit him, but Grant’s oldest son Fred always turned him away. While Grant never reflected on the failure of his policy, Parker always regretted that the plans he had made with his quiet friend from the leather goods store in Galena had ended so badly.

WE read Grant running to defend is follow loyal soldiers when they got in trouble but not Parker... Where's that Grant loyalty?

To take down Parker, Welsh accused him of negotiating a bloated million-dollar contract to supply the Sioux in the summer of 1870 and pocketing most of the money himself. Welsh demanded that Congress investigate Parker and hand over the management of the Indian service to the Board of Indian Commissioners. Congress obliged, forcing Parker to submit to a public trial before a committee of the House of Representatives. Although Parker was ultimately exonerated, Congress passed legislation recognizing the members of the Board of Indian Commissioners as the supervisors of the Indian service. Humiliated and with no real power, Parker resigned his position as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1871.

Grant goes no the slaughter the Indians...

Without an ally like Parker at his side, Grant watched his plans for the Indians come undone. A succession of Commissioners of Indian Affairs replaced Parker, but none had his vision. Before long, Grant ordered the army, which he had once hoped would protect the Indians, to fight against the tribes in a series of bloody wars, including the Modoc War in 1873, the Red River War in 1874, and the Great Sioux War in 1876. By the time Grant left office in 1877, his “peace policy,” as the press had nicknamed it, was judged a failure by all.
 

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Just my opinion, but I think it significant that all (I do mean all) the wars in the 1870s would have been prevented had Eli Parker been unobstructed. Grant had two major failures during his presidency: Indians and the South.
 

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Eli Parker been unobstructed. Grant
Grant did not come to Parker's defense like others who were guilty of crimes. How do we square this peg?
 

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Grant did not come to Parker's defense like others who were guilty of crimes. How do we square this peg?
Well, not gracefully. Fred, Grant's son, turned Eli Parker away because his wife was white. That was a big deal then.
 
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