The United States as a country has become as large as it is today through a long history of years and years of settling in lands that were already inhabited by groups such as the Indigenous peoples and putting up borders to distinguish the country from “other.” This process reached an apex, particularly in the twentieth century, otherwise dubbed, the “American century.” It seems like the winning of the Spanish-American War and the land that came with it gave confidence to the United States’ imperialistic ambitions in that this was followed very quickly by other large cessions of land in the southwestern area of the United States as a result of warring with Spain, but without having any regards to the Native groups that had been and still were occupying these areas before the United States or Spain had come along. During this time, the United States made treaties with these occupying Native nations but they were rarely if ever honored and there was a conscious effort made to forcibly assimilate the Native population and coerce them into leaving lands that they frequented as mobile nations (this difference in view surrounding boundaries and sovereignty was a factor) and/or giving up lands that are either functional or spiritually important to them such as with the creation of Glacier National Park. In this case in particular, the goal of the United States was not so subtle as highlighted by the quote from the commissioner to Little Dog in the 1895 Council Meeting Minutes provided in the PowerPoint from October 9th where he says “‘I don’t want to make fools of you. I hope you will not send us away, for we can help you. . . . You will be able to go alone like the white man. The only difference will be the color of your skin.’” This quote is especially demonstrative of how U.S. settler colonialism fed into imperialism because the commissioner basically equates giving the white people what they want as the “correct” thing to do and what is in the best interest of the Natives in that it would bring them closer to being white which was what the U.S. considered to be the “ideal.”