Plains Wars (1 jan 1862 ano – 31 dez 1868 ano)

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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