Indian Reservation Preservement

A detailed Summary of Indian Reservation Preservement

The Indians had every right to fight. Their land was being taken away by the whites. They were forcing them out by starving them and compressing them into small reservations. Many of the Indian leaders had felt safe before the whites began attacking and invading their territory. The whites provoked the Indians into war according to Ten Bears when he said, "My people have never first drawn a bow or fired a gun against the whites. There has been trouble on the line between us, and my young men have danced the war dance. But it was not begun by us. It was you who sent out the first solider and we who sent out the second." (Pg. 241 The War to Save the Buffalo) Unfortunately, the whites did not care about the Indians and thought of them as inferior and less advanced.

The Indians were thought of as less intelligent because they never developed their land or had been educated. Many even seemed more intelligent than many whit

The main reason for this is that the Indians had been living there before then the whites thought they could just take it over with no input from the Indians. The Indians were widely discriminated in the plains section of the country. On one account the people of Denver were cheering as news came out about the first massacre of Sitting Bulls people. This was very sickening and was very unsettling. The whites also lied to the Indians by allowing them to own all the land in the plains. The Indians signed a contract allowing them to use all the land and then 10 years later the whites wanted it back. I believe what Motivate said, "I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be friends with the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white men anymore." (Pg. 67 War Comes to the Cheyenne's) This is what happened to all the Indians. It did stop once al

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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