Comparison Of The White-Indian Massacres Of Arapaho And Cheyenne Indians

There were also many atrocities committed during the massacres of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indian tribes. The U.S. army felt that the Native Americans were inferior so they brutally hunted down innocent plains Indians like animals. Suspicion and hostility, stemming from technological and cultural differences as well as mutual feelings of superiority, destroyed relations between Native Americans and whites in North America. Distrust among the Indians, and nationalistic rivalries, bad faith, and expansionist desires on the part of the U.S. raised these tensions. The resulting white- Indian conflicts often took a brutal turn for the worse and ultimately resulted in the near destruction of the Native Americans. The Indian removal act was put into