From Hollywood film to actual history, people now know that Native American Indians weren’t as bad as Hollywood liked to portray them. With such animosity between whites and Native Americans during 1864, Indian civilizations became substantially extinct. With the rising popularity and value of mining gold during 1864 and the years following shortly after, soldiers and white Americans increasingly began to overtake the Native Americans homes, reservations, food supply, and everything they owned. Because of these heightening issues between the common white man and Native Americans, larger issues were beginning to arise, ultimately kick starting the process of a mass extinction for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. The Sand Creek Massacre was
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When looking at government policies for reservations, there are definitely early glimpses of the hatred and mistreatment toward the Native Americans, though also positive sides from government. An Indian commissioner Luke Lea made a recommendation to get the Plains Indians from specific reservations to move away from hunting, by his words, “reducing the amount of land available for hunting, he hoped to force these people to adopt a farming economy.” The purpose of these reservations by the governments stand point were to control the so called “antics” such as, being placed in positions where they would be controlled, and eventually forced by strong ideas of necessity to resort to agriculture labor or starve and go hungry. In the interest of the government, they wanted to “protect” the Indians on the reservations by forcing them into an agricultural way of life. By doing this Luke Lea says, “In the meantime the government should cause them to be supplied with stock, agricultural implements, and useful materials for clothing: encourage and assist them in the erection of comfortable dwellings, and secure to them the means and facilities of education, intellectual, moral, and religious.” Basically stripping the Plains Indians of any culture they’ve ever known to change them entirely to meet that standards of the white Americans in …show more content…
After assessing the many reasons as to why these many outbreaks occurred they came to about three conclusions. The first conclusion being, “Indians everywhere, with the exception of the tribes within the Indian Territory, are rapidly decreasing in numbers from various causes: By disease; by intemperance; by wars; among themselves and with whites; by the steady and relentless emigration of white men into the territories of the west; but most of all the conflict between a superior and inferior race when brought in presence of each other.” The second conclusion they came to, “was the opinion that in a large majority of all wars between the white Americans and Indians, were due to the aggression of lawless white men.” Who were always digging the boundary, and pushing the Indians past there breaking points, to the point of having to fight with the whites. The last and third conclusion was the loss of their hunting ground, for their ability to hunt for buffalo and other animals, which in turn make a food source for them as well, as supplies for homes, clothing, etc. Upon this destruction it made it harder for the Indians to continue to exist. The cause of this destruction wasn’t only caused by gold mining in California, but is also due to the two railroad lines rapidly crossing
When looking at government policies for reservations, there are definitely early glimpses of the hatred and mistreatment toward the Native Americans, though also positive sides from government. An Indian commissioner Luke Lea made a recommendation to get the Plains Indians from specific reservations to move away from hunting, by his words, “reducing the amount of land available for hunting, he hoped to force these people to adopt a farming economy.” The purpose of these reservations by the governments stand point were to control the so called “antics” such as, being placed in positions where they would be controlled, and eventually forced by strong ideas of necessity to resort to agriculture labor or starve and go hungry. In the interest of the government, they wanted to “protect” the Indians on the reservations by forcing them into an agricultural way of life. By doing this Luke Lea says, “In the meantime the government should cause them to be supplied with stock, agricultural implements, and useful materials for clothing: encourage and assist them in the erection of comfortable dwellings, and secure to them the means and facilities of education, intellectual, moral, and religious.” Basically stripping the Plains Indians of any culture they’ve ever known to change them entirely to meet that standards of the white Americans in …show more content…
After assessing the many reasons as to why these many outbreaks occurred they came to about three conclusions. The first conclusion being, “Indians everywhere, with the exception of the tribes within the Indian Territory, are rapidly decreasing in numbers from various causes: By disease; by intemperance; by wars; among themselves and with whites; by the steady and relentless emigration of white men into the territories of the west; but most of all the conflict between a superior and inferior race when brought in presence of each other.” The second conclusion they came to, “was the opinion that in a large majority of all wars between the white Americans and Indians, were due to the aggression of lawless white men.” Who were always digging the boundary, and pushing the Indians past there breaking points, to the point of having to fight with the whites. The last and third conclusion was the loss of their hunting ground, for their ability to hunt for buffalo and other animals, which in turn make a food source for them as well, as supplies for homes, clothing, etc. Upon this destruction it made it harder for the Indians to continue to exist. The cause of this destruction wasn’t only caused by gold mining in California, but is also due to the two railroad lines rapidly crossing