Native American Civil War Essay

A few years after the civil war, the focus of hatred shifted to the American Indians. Especially the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, who had noticed the white men had begun pressing heavy military resistance upon them and drove their buffalo herds out. This marked a big step towards total regulation among the Indians, by forcing them to live on reservations. This would lead up to a special ritual called the sun dance, which brought several tribes together to come together with a plan to ambush the buffalo hunter’s camp, the adobe walls. The battles increased through time and made Sherman reflect on the civil war in some aspect. Believing that this advancement upon the tribes was very overdrawn and should’ve been more precise and controlled, he notes that it was more of a political gain then for the status quo. This letter represents an important part of history however, as it

Even though slavery had been abolished, the whites still sought to gain more power over all. Beginning in the early 1860’s, the government began to concentrate the plain tribes onto reservations. The plan was to move the tribes into these reservations to allow them to have their own land. However, the intentions were more deceitful, as the main goal was to break the spirit of the Indians. "The only good Indian is a dead Indian,” said by Philip Sheridan, was an infamous saying that had been thrown around. I believe that it encompasses the true spirit of the typical white tyrannical settler of that era. Land had become a very touchy situation during that period though. This eventually passed into congress, allowing the Dawes Act to be passed in 1887, a little further ahead. This would allow cultural assimilation of the tribes into the typical white and black communities. Basically leaving the Indians to having nothing, famished, and left ashamed of what had become of their