RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
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American Indians refused to share their land.
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The United States found gold.
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American Indians refused to assimilate.
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The United States found buffalo.
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Detailed explanation-1: -But after gold was discovered in the Black Hills, miners and settlers began moving onto the land en masse. Native resistance to the treaty’s violation culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, after which government troops flooded the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1871, the House of Representatives ceased recognition of individual tribes within the U.S. as independent nations with whom the U.S. could contract by treaty. This ended the nearly 100-year-old practice of treaty-making between the U.S. and American Indian tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes in 1871. Since then, relations with Indian groups are by Congressional acts, Executive Orders, and Executive Agreements.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 is on view in the exhibition “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, ” at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. through March 2019.