In 1889 buffalo were almost extinct and native americans were forced into reservations or are taken to private schools to change them from their unpropitious ways, and turn them into “perfect” christians (Docs 1,7, 12). Their land has been taken, their buffalo have been killed, and their culture has been ripped out of them. Before the mid 1800’s Native Americans were peripatetic. They would travel from place to place without a government, or rules. They covered most of the western United States, then in 1820 the land they lived on was started to disappear from them. By 1879, most of the land they lived on was taken gone and the percentage of Native Americans living on the land decreased significantly. The U.S. government created reservations
