Essay On Native Americans After The Civil War

During the Civil War, competition within opponents greatly increased the demand for better, sturdier weapons, and newer, more innovative ideas that helped them secure an advantage over each other. New ideas cultivated the birth of industrial America such as railroads, light bulbs, and telegrams emerged to help improve citizen’s lives. As a result, after the Civil War, American economy had feverishly boomed. As more immigrants flood into the U.S, the U.S becomes more populated with a greater work force that transformed many rural areas into cities. However, this population boom also forced many Indians onto reservations, which is depressing because many Indian tribes had already been living on the land before we had even arrived. Of of these …show more content…
And of course, this is exactly what the Natives did. However, this proved to be a little more difficult than it sounded, not because of the two groups themselves, but because of the way they each trained their horses, one group training them to mount from the right and the other from the left. Thus a conflict ensues in which an Indian would find it difficult mounting a Western horse because the horses were taught to be mounted from the left while the Indians were accustomed to mount their horses on the right. The Plain Indians relied heavily on the buffalo, using the buffalo not only for clothing and food but also tools, fuel, and transportation as well. Because of their heavy reliance on the buffalo, it is understandable that without this source of food, many of these Plains Indians would die off. In fact, as the buffalo became more and more extinct at the hands of the Westerners(Buffalo Bill), tribes would hold dances, one of the most famous being the Ghost Dance. The Indians believed that if they did this dance, then then all the dead buffalo and the dead men that had been slaughtered by the Westerners would come back