Native American Reconstruction

Reconstruction failed to create equity between the races and the previous practices of discrimination and exploitation of the blacks continued. The reconstruction period failed to redistribute wealth and modernize the southern society. The question of land ownership remained the same with the black community unable to own land. This situation left the black community vulnerable to exploitation by the land owning white community in the south despite having been freed. Reconstruction notably failed to prevent violence perpetrated against the black community; especially through the spread of the Ku Klux Klan. The end of reconstruction never realized the potential for change created by the thirteen, fourteen and fifteen amendments. Despite these failures,

The Native Americans had similar cultures, economic activities and physical looks. They all had their subsistence from hunting and agriculture and used the existing raw materials in the plains for food and clothing. Due to the regular changes in the weather patterns of the Great Plains, the Native Americans changed their way of life in the same way through the seasons. They also all shared a similarity in language, currencies for trade and weapons. The belief systems and religions practiced were also similar for all the different Native American dwellers of the Great Plains. The Native Americans of the Great Plains defended their territory from the white settler’s expansion through similar methods. They fought back with military force, tried to settle through treaties and finally tried alliances with other forces to stop the loss of their lands to the white settlers. The federal government destroyed the cultures of the Native Americans hoping that; by westernizing them, they could be ‘better citizens’. The government had hoped to integrate the Native Americans into the wider white American