At a final point in time, the West was somewhat settled and at peace after the many battles of the civil war. Eventually, all of Americans, Native Americans, and also, the United States Government began coexisting throughout the Western territory. However, unfortunately the journey to achieve this status consumed many lives, brought forth war, and of course, took a tremendous amount of time and effort coming from all three parties to come to a civil agreeance with one another. What was the seemingly untouched West like before white settlers came? Many Native American tribes had been peacefully existing in the area for as long as several centuries. However, specifically the eighteenth century marked the stereotypical representation
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Thus, bringing us to the one of the first significant disagreeances of the Native American and the White man. As war was coming to a halt, soldiers began returning home. At the time, the economy was at a plateau and men had seemingly nothing to do. So of course, they began to hunt the indigenous and precious, buffalo. Factories began booming with hides and buffalos were becoming scarce. This was a first of many harsh times that Native Americans started to feel deprived and taken advantage of for their nonviolent ways, as talking it out with the white man was clearly not working. Not to mention the deadly diseases that settlers brought along with them that many of the Natives unfortunately did not survive. “Was it inevitable that European Americans would seize Native Americans’ land?”, asks the “American Experience”, it further states,” The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act halted the process of treaty-making with Indian nations. An important precedent had already been established with the removal of the majority of eastern woodland tribes via U.S.-Indian treaties during the 1820s to 1840s.
Thus, bringing us to the one of the first significant disagreeances of the Native American and the White man. As war was coming to a halt, soldiers began returning home. At the time, the economy was at a plateau and men had seemingly nothing to do. So of course, they began to hunt the indigenous and precious, buffalo. Factories began booming with hides and buffalos were becoming scarce. This was a first of many harsh times that Native Americans started to feel deprived and taken advantage of for their nonviolent ways, as talking it out with the white man was clearly not working. Not to mention the deadly diseases that settlers brought along with them that many of the Natives unfortunately did not survive. “Was it inevitable that European Americans would seize Native Americans’ land?”, asks the “American Experience”, it further states,” The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act halted the process of treaty-making with Indian nations. An important precedent had already been established with the removal of the majority of eastern woodland tribes via U.S.-Indian treaties during the 1820s to 1840s.