19th Century Indian Culture

When the white Americans began migrating to the Great Plains in the 19th century, the lives of Native Americans dramatically changed, forever. The new emigrants who came to the land of the Indians brought with them many diseases and bacteria that the Natives were not immune to. An Indian chief remembers, "the white people came, they brought with them some good, but they brought the small pox, and they brought evil liquors; the Indians since diminish and they are no longer happy" (p.5). Diseases such as smallpox, cholera, measles, and scarlet fever wiped out an enormous amount of Indians. The white man brought another type of disease with him, the disease of war. White Americans and Native Americans fought many battles over the ownership of the Indian’s land. In 1851, the Americans and the Indians made the Treaty of Fort Laramie that said Indians accepted American proposals that they recognize tribal boundaries. However, a few years later more fighting broke out. A misunderstanding about the loss of an emigrant’s cow in 1854 resulted in the killing of Lt. John Grattan and his command by Brule Sioux. Retaliation on an Indian village at Ash Hollow by General William S. Harney set

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