How Did Western Expansion Affected Native Americans

Western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the mid 1800’s to the end of the 1800’s because the government forced them to move to the middle of nowhere because there was no use to the land and the land that the Native’s were originally on, there was valuable uses to them. Another thing that affected the Native Americans was the Sand Creek Massacre, the Indians were at Sand Creek and one morning militia came and they started to shoot at the Indians and they killed men, women and children. Another thing that an affect on the Native Americans was the Indian Policy Reform, it affected them in a way that, stated in the policy, that the Indians are moving a lot and that the money spent on them for their reservations and that they should just leave them as is and there should be schools built for the Indians. So they have to change the problem they gave with the Indians and make the problem better to deal with and there would be no more conflicts. The last event that affected the Native Americans was the Dawes Act, the Dawes Act affected the …show more content…
The farming unsuccessful for the Indians because the land that they were using was not useful and there was little rainfall for their crops. The land of the Native Americans had fell into the hands of the whites. The land was divided into sections and given families or single person. Each head of a family got one-quarter of section. Each single person over 18 years of age got one-eighth of a section, it was the same for orphan children under 18 years of age. That has affected the Indians because they are again losing their land to the whites because how much their land is worth and the government wants to take control of the land. They are losing their land and they will again have to move into