⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️HELP HELP HELP HELP XTRA POINTS - Read this doc then answer the two questions.⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ ...that the present crisis in the affairs of the Indian nations, calls loudly on all who can feel for the woes of humanity, to solicit, with earnestness, your honorable body to bestow on this subject, involving, as it does, the prosperity and happiness of more than fifty thousand of our fellow Christians, the immediate consideration demanded by its interesting nature and pressing importance.
It is readily acknowledged,...any... interference on the part of their own sex with the ordinary political affairs of the country, as wholly unbecoming the character of the American females. Even in private life, we may not presume to direct the general conduct, or control the acts of those who stand in the near and guardian relations of husbands and brothers; yet all admit that there are times when duty and affection call on us to advise and persuade,... may we not hope that even the small voice of female sympathy will be heard?...
When, therefore, injury and oppression threaten to crush a hapless people within our borders, we, the feeblest of the feeble, appeal with confidence to those who should be representatives of national virtues... To you, then, as the constitutional protectors of the Indians within our territory, and as the peculiar guardians of our national character, and our counter's [country’s] welfare, we solemnly and honestly appeal, to save this remnant of a much injured people from annihilation.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

Questions:

What do the ladies believe the role of the government is toward the Indians?

What would the government have actually done if it had “protected” them?