The New World was changing, expanding, growing, and discovering new things. In the years 1865-1900 or better known as the Gilded Age there was countless things going on in the United States. Farmers were forming alliances to help with loans that farmers wanted to pay off as quickly as possible. There was also a series of Indian affairs going on that were known as the Indian Wars. The Plains Indians were settled out West were the United States kicked the Indians to, but now the United States is coming back wanting more land to put the railroads and telegraphs. The lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century was significantly different and affected by the technological developments and the government’s actions. The
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government tried taking away the Indians culture through boarding schools and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. With the United States getting involved with the Indians life the Indians had to make changes in the way the Indians usually do. Before the United States government was in the Plains Indians lives the Plains Indians lived spread out through the western territory which the United States gave the Indians. After the U.S. government invaded the Plains Indians territory to protect the settlers and secure peaceful transportation from the western expansion. The Department of War was responsible for enforcing federal law and was called to handle the situation with the tribes. The tribes refused to negotiate with the BIA or the people who broke the peace treaty. The Department of War encouraged the killing of the bison across the Great Plains to deprive the native people of their primary source of food, clothing, and shelter. The Plains Indians were being pushed further and further away because of the growing United States. The U.S. was selling the Indians land and guaranteed the land within thirty days (1910). When gold was discovered in Wyoming and Montana the white settlers began to move there, into the territory of the Lakota who were commonly called the Sioux people. Chief Red Cloud, who was a Lakota did not take any part in treaty negotiations …show more content…
The Plains Indians were thrown around again into new reservations because the United States need to expand to compensate for all the new immigrants that were arriving and somewhere to put the railroads and
government tried taking away the Indians culture through boarding schools and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. With the United States getting involved with the Indians life the Indians had to make changes in the way the Indians usually do. Before the United States government was in the Plains Indians lives the Plains Indians lived spread out through the western territory which the United States gave the Indians. After the U.S. government invaded the Plains Indians territory to protect the settlers and secure peaceful transportation from the western expansion. The Department of War was responsible for enforcing federal law and was called to handle the situation with the tribes. The tribes refused to negotiate with the BIA or the people who broke the peace treaty. The Department of War encouraged the killing of the bison across the Great Plains to deprive the native people of their primary source of food, clothing, and shelter. The Plains Indians were being pushed further and further away because of the growing United States. The U.S. was selling the Indians land and guaranteed the land within thirty days (1910). When gold was discovered in Wyoming and Montana the white settlers began to move there, into the territory of the Lakota who were commonly called the Sioux people. Chief Red Cloud, who was a Lakota did not take any part in treaty negotiations …show more content…
The Plains Indians were thrown around again into new reservations because the United States need to expand to compensate for all the new immigrants that were arriving and somewhere to put the railroads and