RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
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Buffalo hunters were killing thousands of buffalo.
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There were fewer people to defend the settlements when people left to fight in the Civil War.
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The Plains Indians were frustrated with life on reservations.
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They lacked basic supplies and raided settlements to get them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The various wars resulted from a wide variety of factors, the most common being the desire of settlers and governments for Indian tribes’ lands. The European powers and their colonies also enlisted allied Indian tribes to help them conduct warfare against each other’s colonial settlements.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Civil War period brought something of a retrenchment on the western Texas frontier. Mexico became a refuge for migrating bands of Kickapoo, Lipan, and Seminole who shunned the reservations in Indian Territory. Comanches and Kiowas continued to travel their historic trails between the High Plains and the Rio Grande.
Detailed explanation-3: -At that time, millions of indigenous people had settled across North America in hundreds of different tribes. 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: -The removal of Native peoples from their land to reservations and the destruction of their livelihood was a main contributing factor to the many battles that made up the Indian Wars.