The Native Indians - 2131 Words

The Native Indians were a peaceful nation, who after many years of colonization, were being pushed farther west as time went on. The United States felt the need and duty to expand westward as more people immigrated to America. They would go to any lengths to accomplish their goal, even if it meant inhumanly getting rid of Indians living there. The Natives wanted to peacefully settle the issue by agreeing on treaties, but the United States government continually disregarded the agreements. During Westward expansion America unequivocally disregarded the Native Indians indisputable rights and violently diminished the population. America s ignorance to the Natives living in the west generated the reasoning that expanding was their obligation.†¦show more content†¦Since they saw the land as undeveloped, they also saw the natives living there as a lesser society. America saw expanding west as its duty. Even though the Natives had a civilized society, the United States disregarded that and viewed them as barbarics. Americans also saw it as a duty to uplift or enhance the Native Indian society. The Natives suffered greatly when the Americans ruthlessly slaughtered the buffalos, due to their heavy reliance on them. The Indians had a very important and deep relationship with the buffalo. Although as more people began moving west the demand for buffalo hides grew as trains and riverboats brought in more and more hunters and made transport of hides back east easier(The Buffalo and the Indians 54). These hunters would only harvest the hides and sometimes tongues, and left the rest to rot. Since the Indians honored the buffalo so much, to see the buffalo disrespected by the white settlers was infuriating. The buffalo was not used to the settlers or trains, so pressure built for them, as well as the Natives. The situation became worse as rifles advanced and men competed for how many buffalo they caught. As competition built more buffaloes were killed, and Indians began to fight back. In response to the Americans leaving the buffalo to rot in the prairies, the Cheyenne Chief Roman Nose said We will not have the wagons which make a noise [trains] in the hunting grounds of the buffalo. If the palefaces come farther into our land, there