Impact Of Westward Expansion On Native Americans

The impact of the Westward Expansion had on the Native American’s was always having to move, over 2,000 dead, and loss of tradition.
“Back in the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act led to a forced westward march of the Southeastern-based Cherokees by the U.S. Army that has become known as the Trail of Tears.” The Indian Removal Act actually forced all Indian tribes to move. Really, it was the Indian’s that decided to move because the gold rush forced settlers through their hunting land. Indian’s were no longer able to get food other than what they grew and harvested because people scared all the animals away. So the Indian’s made a treaty with the government. The government promised to keep people from coming on the new Indian land. Some Indian tribes moved to peaceful grounds. That is why Indian’s agreed to travel hundreds of miles to new land. And their travels took years to walk.
Indian Tribes fought each other for hunting land when their land wasn’t good hunting. Many Indian’s were abused by soldiers. Some Indians died because soldier’s killed them. And the weather killed them because they walked in freezing temperatures. Some Indians died of disease and no food. About 2,000 of the Navajos died from disease and not

It had shredded the fabric of the Indians' lives. Spouses, children, and parents were dead. Tribes were separated; families split into factions. Their property and wealth were gone.” The move made the Indian’s very mad. They couldn’t bring everything with them because they didn’t have enough wagons and animals to carry their stuff. The government did not give them what their land was worth. And some tribes didn’t receive anything valuable for their land. The Indian’s lived off their land and no longer had anything to trade. They no longer had the sacred ground where they would go to pray. Settlers tried to get the Indian’s to be