RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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They were excited to trade with them
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They were afraid so they hid from them
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They didn’t like that the Anglos were moving onto their lands
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They held ceremonial welcome dances
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, the arrival of the white settlers also affected the Indians because they destroyed their way of life by not allowing them to roam freely across the Plains and made them live on reservations and stop living the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Native Americans welcomed the arriving immigrants and helped them survive. Then they celebrated together, even though the Pilgrims considered the Native Americans heathens. The Pilgrims were devout Christians who fled Europe seeking religious freedom. They were religious refugees.
Detailed explanation-3: -But between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American-Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control.
Detailed explanation-4: -A Puritan minister in Boston justifies the colonists’ acquiring Indian land for little to no payment. “The Indians made no use of it, ” he asserts, “but for Hunting.”