In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat told General Howard, I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do." What gave General Howard "the right" to insist that the Chute-pa-lu "go upon the reservation" regardless of their wishes? To what extent was the conflict between the Chute-pa-lu and the federal government rooted in disagreements about what "kind of menAmericans were and could be?