been neglected by the federal government. As the United States government exercised

more control over the lives of the Indians, increasing efforts we made to force Native

Americans to abandon traditional cultural practices and adopt the way of "white society".

Religious beliefs consituted (and still constitute) one of the major examples of cultural

differences separating whites and Native Americans. The Native American religion has

been misunderstood, maligned and misapproiated. Definitive analyses of particular Native

American religious traditions have been written by non-Indians, who lack any lifelong

experimental basis for their analyses. "Many times the Indian is embarrassed and baffled

by the white man's allusions to nature in terms such as crude, primitive, wild, rude,

untamed and savage. (Standing Bear) More than anything the hostilities between the

Europeans and the Native Americans was a clash of cultures. Native Americans believed

that the land belonged to the spirits of the animals who lived on it. White people believed

Red Cloud was a very important chief during the Bozeman Trail War of 1886 to

States army. Indians did not have absolute power by virtue of rank or title, they led by

Native American's today are still signing treaties and trying to get land back that

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