Throughout the late 1800s, Indian nations across America suffered from social conflict and, because of this, suffered from disease and starvation. As Native Americans continued to be forced from their homeland and relocated to American prisons and military locations, they became mistreated and abused by military leaders. Tasked with peacefully removing Indians from plentiful lands and returning them to their unsustainable lands given to them by the American Government, military leaders began denying Indians resources detrimental to their survival: “Orders came-explicit, repeated, finally stern-insisting on the return of these Indians to their agency… He could not take three hundred Indians by sheer brute force and carry them hundreds of miles…
