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Although the positions of Charles Lummis, Henry Dawes, and William Atkins Jones on the idea of being civilized has it's similarities and differences, because Charles believed that the family unit of Native Americans was strong, Dawes only acting for the gain of Euro-Americans on Native American lands, and Jones consumed with destroying the culture of Native Americans through harsh rules and regulations.

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Although the personalities of the three men come into play, Dawes and Jones believe that the Native Americans need to be forced into civilization because they are in positions of power over the Natives, while Lummis believed that civilization comes from being a family and keeping traditions because he saw things from their perspective.

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Although Lummis, Dawes, and Jones all grew up in the same time period, Dawes and Jones share the opinion that Native Americans are uncivilized, while Lummis on the other hand has personally helped and talked to these people face to face and believes that they are in fact civilized people like everyone else.

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Although all three men played major roles in the lives of Native Americans, they all had their own perception and definition of what it meant for them to become civilized; the difference of opinions is greatly related to the level of interactions they had with the Natives.

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In these three formal documents, the Dawes Act and the Long Hair Letter authors view the Native Americans as uncivilized, and Charles Lummis thinks they are very developed; these points of view come because of different interactions each of the men had with the Native Americans, which influenced the way they see them.

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Although these three men mentioned deal with Native Americans in some way they all deal with them differently, they all also had different relations and different power of the Indians; the Dawes Act act and Longhair letter are similar on how they view the word civilized but Charles Lummis has different thoughts on it.

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Although the men mentioned in the stories each play different role and have a differing dispositions you see two definitions of civilized correlate, while another differs. The one man getting to know Native Americans on a personal level has a completely different view of them, when the others who are authority figures see the Natives as "uncivilized" in their definitions.

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Although everyone is different, the three documents and their authors have different opinions on what being civilized means because Lummis believed Native Americans should have more rights, while Henry and William Jones wanted them their rights to be limited.

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Although their positions on the situation varied, Charles Lummis, William Atkinson Jones (The Long Hair Letter), and Henry Dawes (The Dawes Act) had different ideas of what being civilized meant, because Lummis believed in family and close relationships, Jones thought of material things and wealth, and Dawes pushed for the expansion of European culture and land ownership.

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Although authority plays a role in defining "civilized" it depends on the interactions taken, the authors of the Long Haired Letter and the Dawes Act have roles of keeping order like the english lifestyle and Charles Lummis focuses the fmaily and their relationship.

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Although some could argue the difference simply as seprate personalities, the difference in the 3 men's view on Native Americans came about because of their different interactions with them, or lack therof

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Although these three documents contain the meaning to civilization in the eyes of these individual writers who wrote: The Dawes Act, Charles Lummis, and the Long Hair Letter, these documents share different viewpoints of what it truly means to be civilized because of the various levels of authority they possess over the Native Americans.

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All three of the writers want the Indians to be "civilized"; Jones and Dawes have similar thoughts on how they should act and live, but Lummis is softer toward the topic, although Dawes and Jones' view on this is harsher, the Natives should fit in with the rest

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Although many people wanted to take the rights of Native Americans away, Charles Lummis understood that the Native Americans should be treated as equals becuase the

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Although personality and positions come into play, civilization is defined differently for the Long Hair Letter, the Dawes Act, and the Lummis  Biography; The Dawes act and the Long Hair Letter have similar viewpoints on the definition of being civilized while the Lummis biography has a different viewpoint due to the interactions, viewpoint, and positions of  these people.

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Although personality differences may come into play, Lummis tends to define civilized differently than the speakers of the other two documents because of the separations in power over the Native Americans.

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Although the authors dealt with Native Americans, not all of them believe in their well-being because some had mixed views on what it meant to be civilized and according to some of the authors, the Indians are not civilized because of their culture which is not the same as the European Americans.

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Although all three authors involve themselves in Indian affairs, they define civilized in different ways but the Long Hair Letter and The Dawes Act were similar in that they wanted to take the Indian's customs away and Charles Lummis did not

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Although there are personality differences between the three men, Lummis had the most empathy towards the Native Americans; Lummis thought they should be able to act as they had been and be left alone while Dawes and Jones said they should act like other Americans because they needed to be civilized.

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Although their different personalities play a role, the authors of the Long Hair Letter and Dawes Act both define civilized as European culture, and Lumnis defines it as following your own culture, because only Charles Lumnis put himself in the shoes of the Native Americans

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Although the Native American population is looked down on by the American people, I, as well as Lummis, Jones, and Dawes, believe that if they were to act like the rest of the American population, they would be treated better because the Americans want everyone to be similar to one another, as inferred by the three different articles.

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Although the men have different personalities thier meaning of civilized are different in some ways, considering Lummis viewed Native Americans as family units and Dawes and Jones saw them as different from Europeans, because Lummis saw it first hand, yet Dawes and Jones were in a position of authority.