Defeat Of The Plains Indians

In the third document, Treaty of Fort Laramie, shows over the years how much the Americans took the Native’s land. In 1868, the Lakota nation had mostly the Western land and over 10 years the Lakota land shrunk in size because of the US pushing them away from building the transcontinental railroad. In 1868, the Second treaty of Fort Laramie gave tribes, the Sioux and Cheyenne, a large reservation in the black hills of South Dakota. Then in 1874, White prospectors found gold in the Black Hill. Miners intruded onto Sioux land. Two chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, united to push back the intruder which is known as the battle of Little Bighorn.(81) The Battle was fought on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory(Battle of little Bighorn).The Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire force of of U.S troops.(78). Another document that showed how the land was taken from them is documen one. The map shows how the Native Americans lost mostly all of their land in the years of 1850-1870 that was when gold was discovered, battles, and the Sand Creek Massacre. The Western expansion cause many significant battles which cause many deaths of Native Americans as well as

With the discovery of the New World came a whole lot of new problems. Native American Indians lived in peace and harmony until European explorers interrupted that bliss with the quest for money and power. The European explorers brought with them more people. These people and their descendants starting pushing the natives out of their homes, out of their land, far before the 1800s. However, in the 1800s, the driving force behind the removal of the natives intensified. Thousands of indians during this time were moved along the trail known as Nunna dual Tsung, meaning “The Trail Where They Cried” (“Cherokee Trail of Tears”). The Trail of Tears was not only unjust and unconstitutional, but it also left many indians sick, heartbroken, and dead.

Because buffalo were becoming extinct, the Native Americans had no real diet and their population began to decline rapidly.3

This essay will examine the hostile, violent, inhumane, and unconstitutional efforts of the United States government in dealing with the American Indians during the westward expansion from 1877 to 1900s. During this time the US government attempted to contain, control and assimilate the Indians through warfare, treaties, and the reservation system.

At first, the Plains Indians were starving to death due to the bison being slaughtered by white men and the pelts being sold to the North. White men skinned the animals and left the meat. The Indians battled the Army and individual settlers but they were no match for the advance weaponry of white men.

A recent breakthrough had happened during the winter of 1875 as a indian tribe the Sioux tribe had came into white settlers territory and raided the whole place. How did this all happen? We had many Interviews and discussion from many perspective point of view about the Longhorn Bighorn. As white settlers came into Dakota and Montana a tribe of indians the Sioux tribe was already there. the Whites began to preclude the Sioux tribe out of the land and putting them in Indian reservations. The Sioux tribe refused live in the reservations and began to have controversy. The sioux tribe began to steal cattle horses, and began to raid white settlements.

The Buffalo population of the Great Plains became extinct due to American depreciation for the culturally significant animal of the Natives. The slaughter of these herd gave the American platform ammunition to defeat their adversaries with more ease; they were forced to either starve or give in and live on reservations

In North America, the people of the Plains built a way a life on the fertile lands that spanned from Southern Canada to Texas, from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. This is where the buffalo thrived. The Plains people depended on the buffalo and even developed a hunting technique while others settled in villages, choosing instead to grow crops. But as time went on and the European settlers pushed westward and threatened the way of life not just for the Plains people, but for all Native Americans. In particular, the settlers shamelessly skinned millions of buffalo and sent them into extinction. While they claimed it was for the buffalo's fur, others saw it as the deliberate destruction of a species that was a crucial resource to

The West prior to and after the Civil War was largely unpopulated by the white man, the Indians, as a result, dominated the landscape mostly undisturbed. However, this separation came to a halt as legion of white pioneers invaded the great plains, displacing the Indians and “civilizing” the West. With tensions rising, the government attempted to make treaties that gave the Indians designated areas to live. What the government failed to realize was that there wasn’t a primary Indian hierarchy and that the people in charge of upholding these treaters were corrupt. Inability to control the nomadic people and growing anger amongst the Indian ranks lead to many bloody skirmishes between the Indians and the U.S. Army. The Indian’s had a short lived victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn, “Custer’s Last Stand.” Eventually, the U.S. Army forced the Indians to surrender and corralled them into reservations where they silently suffered for generations as the government attempted to assimilate them.

With more efficient ways of traveling west and the transportation of goods nationwide, citizens saw the opportunity to escape the overcrowding of cities. Although treaties had been established, yet another siege of American Indians’ land was practically inevitable.

The American frontier is an era of great pride and taming of the nature with the will to conquer. American society is taught to never give up and peruse one’s dream, to value that dream and do whatever it takes in order to achieve it. Although this provides a double edged sword for society as it can be the will on one side, but also be the downfall on another. For if any person is supposed to truly resemble the American frontier, then Buffalo Bill would be that image. Yet, in a Native American perspective, his double edged sword is a continually growing downfall for the culture.

In the 16th Century, North America was swarming with a surplus of buffalo that grew to be about 25-30 million of these wild beasts roaming the Great Plains although, that all quickly changed by the late 1900s when only hundreds were left standing in the United States.(Scott 1) The largest contributing factor to the extermination of the Great Plain buffalo was the advancement of civilization along with all of its elements of destructiveness to nature and man’s own selfish concern with expansion and economical gain while overrunning the buffaloes home and gradually sweeping these creatures away. The United States government's inexcusable role in failing to provide the necessary adequate protective measures to preserve the american bison ultimately spawned many severe consequences that worsened the situation of the buffalo. The National Government and the western states nor territories did not stop mans reckless greed for wealth and power over the buffalo and of the native americans. The home of the buffalo was slowly becoming over run by man with firepower.

On June 25, 1876 in central Montana, off the banks of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and his battalion, defeated by the overpowering force of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, surprised a nation who had believed that the army was well prepared and had no doubts of the victory sure to come. A nation determined to take over the Western Plains despite the people already living there, they saw the native people as an obstacle to their progress and as a consequence needed to be removed. Even though the battle at Little Bighorn was a direct result of the United States’ need and desire to expand westward, the conflict that arose due to these aspirations between the army and the Indians would contribute to the growing tension over disagreement of the land and treatment of the natives.

In America Many native Indians traveled across and lived on plains. One of their sacred animals the buffalo lived all across these plains. Buffalos were a huge part of their culture and used in rituals, sacrifices, folks and more.

In novel Saga of The Sioux, there are two major conflicts. These two conflicts are Man vs. Society, and Man vs. Nature. “For two or three more hours, the warriors harassed the soldiers by creeping down gullies and suddenly opening fire at close range,” this quote is an example of how the natives fought the bluecoats. “When the 20th century began, the United States government was well along the road to ‘reforming’ the indian nations,” it shows how they were always battling and wanting the bluecoats out of their land. Americans wanted the indians to leave their sacred land, so they could have it for themselves; the Natives had to involuntary assimilate into white culture. “We are only little herds of buffalo left scattered; the great herds that once covered the prairies are no more,” this quote from the novel is talking about how the lost all of their buffalos. They may have lost them from settlers coming in or bad weather. It is more than likely because of settlers coming in.