(CWOI 6). Legally you could enslave and traffic Native Americans, especially women and children, to perform any forced labor you needed. While the state forced the Indians to work, the federal government sent three officials to negotiate treaties with the Native Americans, because the federal government imagined that the Indian tribes were foreign nations, so they also negotiated treaties to develop some kind of agreement and to ensure that it was peaceful on the lands. The treaties contained laws such as granting Indians enough money to purchase their own equipment and food to become self-sufficient (NPS 12). When the treaties were enacted by the president, the Senate met to discuss the pros and cons, rejecting all of the proposed treaties. After the passage of the failed treaties, the U.S. government continued to move Indians into small sectors, house them, and force them to assimilate into modern culture. The effects of this law lasted 16 years until 1866, when the 14th Amendment was introduced which established that no person should be "deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", nor denied to anyone "the 'equal protection'. of the law” (14th Amendment to the United States Constitution). California law for the government and protection of