Plains Wars (1 ene 1862 año – 31 dic 1868 año)
Descripción:
Themes: CONFLICT, VIOLATION OF TREATIES (deceit), WAR, RESOURCES/LAND, GOVERNMENT, VIOLENCE, DOMINANCE
By 1865, the Native American way of life is under serious threat:
- no real unity between tribes
- vastly different aims between Indians and whites
- desire of the US government to assimilate Native Americans into white American society, effectively destroying Native American cultures - were going to turn Native Americans into literate, Christian farmers
- total failure of white society to understand Native American society
- nomadic (moving around) way of life found on the Great Plains under existential threat from settlement and the development of the transcontinental railroad
- whites took children away from their parents and brought them up as white children - when they returned they didn't fit in with either society
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fecha:
1 ene 1862 año
31 dic 1868 año
~ 7 years