Documents prove that the British intentionally killed off the buffalo in areas populated by the Native Americans. By doing this, the British took away their main source of food. Starvation occurred in many villages and the Natives population had reduced from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900. Villages were pillaged, and prisoners were sent to camps or reservations. The British’s actions were rationalized through religion, Indians were seen as savages that needed to convert and those who didn’t were murdered.
Indians throughout were forced to surrender their lands, and although they put up resistance, it was not enough to stop settlers’ expansion and the Indian’s lands were violently taken, and many were killed in the process. “Behind the English invasion and their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on private property. ...the need for space, for land, was a real human need. ..this human need was transformed into the murder of whole peoples.”(Zinn, pg. 16, A People’s History Of the United States) Wealth and fortune was measured by the amount of land a white man had ; therefore, acquiring land by exerting power with lies and deception was the goal of any settler who wanted to be perceived as a prosperous wealthy man.
Drought years became more and more common where crops withered in the fields and cattle died of thirst. The furious winters of 1886 and 1887 killed the ranchers’ cattle by literally freezing them to death. Many farmers loaded up their household goods and gave up, but others stayed behind to continue farming. Between the bank’s loans, the government’s tight money policies, and the high rate that the railroad charged to carry the farmer’s crops to the market, the farmers were cash-poor. In 1880s, the farmers organized an alliance in which they demanded state ownership of the railroads.
American Plains Indians Jared Cahoon Us History II Dr. Murphy 17 October 2013 The American Plains Indians were forced off their lands for many reasons the biggest reason being the U.S Military, also lack of food/ water. Both of these reasons are bad enough never mind both at the same time. The military would hunt as much buffalo as possible even if they didn’t need all of it whereas the Indians would hunt the least amount possible and use every bit of the buffalo possible. | | Gold was the main drive getting everyone to move out west to the plains and would also
The two groups went to war and the Native Americans targeted and killed many priests. - The New World challenged and changed the religious faiths the first European settlers brought to it. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic of the Spanish Franciscan friars who came to convert them, ultimately exploding in violent rebellion. 2. Role of missionaries in the encounter between Native Americans and Colonists Missionaries came to save heathen souls.
Mary Crow Dog also writes about the intentional killing of her people this in her book, Lakota Woman. She says, “The whites destroyed the tiyospaye, not accidentally, but as a matter of policy. The close-knit clan, set in its old ways, was a stumbling block in the path of the missionary and government agent, its traditions and customs a barrier to what the white man called “progress” and “civilization”” (Crow Dog p.13). Unfortunately for the white man, they failed to succeed at killing off all of the Native people. When a couple hundred thousand were resilient enough to survive this American Holocaust then the whites were faced with a new dilemma, and that was what to do with the
I was disgusted when Auntie told us that if the Nave Americans disobeyed, they would get their limbs cut off. Mr. Columbus wanted to start an international slave trade, but failed. Then, the Native Americans started dying. They died because the Europeans spread diseases like measles, mumps, and typhus. They spread so many diseases due to how they lived.
Government policy attempted to destroy tribal culture and assimilate Indian people into mainstream culture with many negative results. The Ghost Dance represented a last attempt to resist American policies and practices. Throughout the nation, Indian tribes adjusted to their circumstances with mixed results. In 1871, the U.S government formally ended the treaty system, but not completely abolishing the sovereignty of Indian nations. Majority of Indian people lived in poverty and misery, deprived of their traditional means of survival and more often than not, subjected to fraud by corrupt government officials and private suppliers.
The building of railroads and towns were built on lands considered holy by the Natives Americans. Farming interfered with the buffalo herds. The buffalo was of great so importance to these tribes. These factors led to an overall hatred of the American settlers. The settlers came in with the belief that they were settling a "new land," and failed to recognize or accept the Native Americans rights to their land, culture, and way of life.
The massacre of 1890, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, this is where the U.S. Cavalry took our warriors, women and children and had them slaughtered, so much devastation to my people back then. My people were now under the siege of the U.S. Government. The Government wanted to relocate my people and take them from their homes, they could not practice their customs or speak are native language. Our children were also taken from us and sent to school in hopes that they might be able to “civilize” them. They didn’t want our children to know of our