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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which the U.S. government interacted with the Native Americans from approximately 1850-1890, a period generally called the "Indian Wars." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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fulfill a doctrine called "manifest destiny," an artificial construct that said it was somehow the fate of the new nation to spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A moments
reflection will reveal that there is no real reason why America should occupy this territory; the nation could have set its western boundary at the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi, the
Great Plains or the Rockies. Instead, it kept expanding, and in doing so, pushed the Native peoples off their lands, removed them by force, or otherwise disposed of them. The
period 1850-1890 saw repeated clashes between Indians and whites; the years 1854-1890 are called by some historians the "Sioux Wars." Lets consider this (Sioux wars, 2005). The history of
the Sioux is not a happy one. Sioux warriors fought for the British during the Revolution and the War of 1812; despite this, "the bands in the East inked peace
treaties with the infant country" (Sioux wars, 2005). In 1825, another agreement "assured the Sioux control of a vast region that encompassed much of what is today Missouri, Iowa, Wyoming,
the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin" (Sioux wars, 2005). The United States bought their land from the Sioux in 1837 and followed that with "more land acquisition in 1851" (Sioux wars,
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 2005). The first "significant incident" occurred in 1854 in Wyoming, when the
Sioux killed 19 U.S. soldiers (Sioux wars, 2005). The following year, the Army took its revenge, killing "approximately 100 Sioux in their Nebraska camp" and taking their chief prisoner (Sioux
wars, 2005). Chief Little Crow instigated an uprising in Minnesota in 1862; the Sioux "slaughtered hundreds of settlers in the New Ulm area before U.S. Army soldiers defeated them" (Sioux
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