Difference Between Plain Indians

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There are many differences between the plain Indians and white people up to 1860 including religion, land, nature, war and crime, wealth and politics. But there is one difference that I feel is the most important. I feel that the most important reason I feel is religion as I feel it is the difference that cause most fights between the plain Indians as they believed in more than one god whereas they ones only believed in one as they followed the religions of Christianity and Judaism. This would as the whites would have tried to convert them to Christianity and Judaism which obviously the plain wouldn’t of liked this. Another difference would have been the matter of land as the plain Indians didn’t believe in owning land they believed that the land should be shared not owned which was different for the white people as they would buy land and own it. Due to the plain Indians believing that the land was shared they would…show more content…
The Indians didn’t believe in punishing their children the only punishment they would have had would have been having a bucket of cold water chucked over their heads, the punishment for a crime would have meant being banished from the camp to fend for themselves. The whites views on punishment were much different from the plain Indians as the whites did more serious punishment towards people who had committed a crime and much more severe. The Indians views on war were different from the white views on war, the Indians wouldn’t go out to war and base it on killing they would go out to war and base it on how many times they could go and touch their enemy with a stick as they believed this showed the bravery. The whites would have found this ridiculous. This isn’t as important as religion as the conflict would of manly a risen from s disagreement with religion as this what the main reason why most conflicts had
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