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of the conflict, however it   that were ?designated? as ?Indian   but is rather well-known. This is the battle of Little Bighorn of 1876, in
 was the Natives that were   territory?(khanacademy.org Getchell).  which colonel George Armstrong Custer led a final assault on the Sioux
 decimated in the end.   This territory was located to the West  tribe?s main encampment at Little Bighorn. The assault ended very
 Although many people just   of the Mississippi River. There were   unsuccessfully, as he and his battalion were all killed.
 assume that what   many forceful migrations of the
 happened to the Natives   Natives because of this act, including   Wrap Up
 was nothing too wrong or   the migration of the Cherokee nation.
                                          The evidence from this article clearly proves that the American settlers
 evil, the story of the Natives   The brutal migration of the resisting
 is actually a very tragic tale   Cherokee resulted in the Trail of   Dances With Wolves  were wrong in their thirst for land,
 of greed and suffering.   Tears, having ?as many as 8,000?                 money and power and that it was
                                           This book takes place right
 People should be informed   (khanacademy.org Getchell) Cherokee   after the civil war, when the   wrong of them to subject the Native
 about this topic as, in the   fatalities. After the massacre of those      Americans to the suffering that was
                                           conflicts between the
 probable words of   who were not willing to march West,   Americans and the Native   endured. Greed is often found to be
 philosopher George   the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851                 the culprit behind these conflicts, and
                                           Americans were waged quite
 Santayana, ?Those who do   produced Native reservations in what            is only seen once it is too late for the
                                           often. This is a story of love
 not learn history are   would become Oklahoma, Nebraska                    other side. That is what occurred with
                                           and finding out who you truly
 doomed to repeat it.?  and Kansas. Although many Natives   are. The book is a great story   the horrific treatment of the Native
 The Evil   The History  did not agree with the American   of the Native Americans, and   article that the Natives were right in
                                                                            Americans. It is made clear by this
   reservation system and retaliated,
                                           the tragic events that befell
 Originally, the combat   they were eventually forced to move   them over time. It also views   fighting back, and that the settlers were
                                                                            wrong in starting the conflict. Although
   to the reservations after a series of   the Americans in a sinister      there seems to be more evidence
 History of a   the new settlers was   bloody battles. The concept of   light, showing how wrong they   supporting this opinion, many people
 between the Natives and
   Manifest Destiny, as well as the Gold
                                           were in their destroying of the
 nothing major, with most of
 the combat being between   Rush, caused a lot more of these   Native Americans. This book   still think that there was not a right side
                                                                            to this argument, and those people
   conflicts. It was after the             has a large amount of            should now see that there may not
 Beloved Game  or a small party of white   Mexican-American War that the   historically accurate facts and   have necessarily been a right side, but
 someone who became lost
   locations of Texas Arizona and New
                                           moments in it, which is why I
 soldiers against an entire
 village of Native Americans.   Mexico became new bloody battle   recommend reading it. This   that there was absolutely a wrong side,
                                                                            as the settlers showed absolutely no
 A long voyage for a big, and   landed Christopher Columbus into   grounds for the Native Americans and   award winning book has
 This conflict continued                                                    mercy in the treatment of the Native
 expensive, gamble finally ended, as   what he believed to be the East   through the colonization of   the settlers. As the Manifest Destiny   turned into an award winning
 the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa   Indies. However, he could not have   America and through the   continued and more white settlers   film, which has received a large   Americans.
 been more wrong with his   moved to the Great Plains, a series of
 Maria anchored off the shore of a   joining of many of the   amount of praise. The film has
 assumption and did not know that   battles occured that became known   a nearly 4 hour run time,
 chain of islands. Christopher   Natives and the French
 the six Natives that he enslaved on   as the Sioux Wars. These conflicts   making it approximately the
 Columbus viewed his surroundings   his first day in the new territory   against the British in the   lasted from 1854 until 1890. This time   28th longest film ever
 and just assumed that he had landed   would spark a long line of pain and   French and Indian War   included the Great Sioux War, which
 (?Native American History                 recorded, and has received an
 somewhere in India. However, he   suffering for the people that had   occurred in 1876-77 due to the   82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
 Timeline?). However, the
 would soon come to discover that the   already been living on the land that   conflicts between the   amount of white miners in search of
 so many countries would   gold that searched the Sioux hunting
 6 people that he had captured and   Natives and the settlers
 immediately start to claim. From   grounds. All of these minors
 forced into slavery at his docking site,   soon continued and lasted
 1492, when Christopher Columbus   eventually got the U.S. government
 were not people who went by the title   on and off up until the
 landed in America, to 1968 the   involved and the U.S. army was
 Indian. He would soon come to learn   conflicts between the Native   official Indian Removal Act   tasked with protecting the minors
 of 1830. This act ?forced?
 that they were an entire new people.  Americans and the many explorers of   from the Sioux, in their search for
 the ?removal of? a large
 The Back ground and   the new world, which would one day   amount of Native American   gold. This War was the last major
 be in the United States of America,   conflict between the U.S. and the
 Beliefs  ?tribes from their Ancestral
 were waged in ever changing ways.   Sioux tribe. There was, however,
 lands? and onto lands that
 Three months of violent seas finally   There were large losses by both sides   another conflict that was not as large
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