The indians weren’t particularly fond of the “Great White Father” in Washington and his policies.
During the Civil War, there was an attempt to make peace with the Sioux and their enemies the Pawnee. The Army negotiator said “The Great White Father does not like for his Red Children to be fighting!”
The Sioux retort was to laugh and say “The Great White Father cannot keep his own children from fighting!” and went on their way.
The fights between the Sioux and Pawnee went on till way in the 1870s when the Pawnee and their families were slaughtered by a Sioux war party of over 1000 warriors at Massacre Canyon Nebraska.
The Pawnee were then moved to a reservation in Oklahoma, far away from the Sioux.