The whites contemptuously disregarded this treaty and seized the lands which it guaranteed to the Indians, being themselves the aggressors, and paying no heed to the plighted word of the Government, while the Government itself was too weak to make the frontiersmen keep faith.
Roosevelt critiques the disregard for treaties by white settlers and the government's inability to enforce them.
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