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Why were Native Americans of the Great Plains hurt when the government killed bison?
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∙ 7y ago
The bison was food and everything thing else they needed to live. Winfied Scott decided to do total war on the plains tribes by killing the buffalo. When the Europeans came there were 30 million buffalo on the plains and by 1850 there were only 17,000.
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What was the outcome of conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. military on the plains?
The outcome was the Native Americans lost their lands, were killed, and moved to reservations.
Why was the fighting on the frontier in the revolution especially destructive?
Native Americans attacked Colonial settlements, and settlers killed neutral Native Americans.
How did the native Americans impact the spanish mission system?
Native Americans were enslaved by the missionaries. They were forced to convert to Christianity by the missionaries and to leave their cultural ways to live and work at the missions. Thousands of Native Americans are buried in mass graves at California missions. They were killed by the missionaries. Your question should be asking how did the missionaries impact the Native Americans.
What effects did the missions have on native Americans?
The missions didn't help the Native Americans. Many were killed by the priests and put into mass graves ( the graves are still there), they were not allowed to practice their cultural rites or to speak native languages, and they were required to work at the mission. I think even worse than the mission system was the government Native American schools. Children were taken from their parents and tribe to live at the schools. They were not allowed to speak native languages or learn the traditional things about their tribe.
Why did the government move the Native Americans?
Very simple they wanted the land. Since the colonies the Europeans took Native American ancestral lands for their own. They killed, discriminated against, gave diseases, and practiced environmental terrorism by importing plants, animals, and insects not native to North America. The European honey bee did more damage than anything else.
What happen to the great plains?
The Great Plains Native Americans were driven away by the settlers. These Native Americans were also killed off by diseases.
When the government killed the bison it hurt the Native Americans of the Great Plains because?
Native Americans were hurt because they ate bison as a part of their diet so they lost some food.
What happened to the great plains Indians?
The Great Plains Native Americans were driven away by the settlers. These Native Americans were also killed off by diseases.
What was the outcome of conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. military on the plains?
The outcome was the Native Americans lost their lands, were killed, and moved to reservations.
Why did the government try to assimilate native Americans?
There was no assimilation of Native Americans. They were discriminated against and put on reservations as well as killed.
How does prospecting of gold and silver affect the plains native Americans?
It made no real change to them at all. It is sad to say that they (Native Americans) were always pushed off their lands, killed, or just robbed of anything of value that the American Government or its people wanted.
Why did the buffalo begin to disappear from the great plains in the 1870?
Many European Americans came to the Great Plains and killed the buffalo. The Native Americans also hunted the buffalo for their meat and skin.
Why was the fighting on the frontier in the revolution especially destructive?
Native Americans attacked Colonial settlements, and settlers killed neutral Native Americans.
When the government killed the bison it hurt the native Americans of the great plain because?
They needed the bison for food.
Why did the army encourage the killing of the buffalo?
the united states army encurage the pioners to kill the buffelo because they knew they could not win conflicts with the native Americans if the buffelo were still there. because the buffelo were there source for every thing including housing and food
Who stood against the cruel treatment of native Americans?
No one cared about the Native Americans. The government policy was a " good Indian" was a dead one and they did anything they could to kill tribes. Some of the things that were done were blankets that had disease, killed off herds of buffalo that were used by plains tribes, the killing and raids on camps killing women, children, and men, removal from ancestral lands to reservations, and the removal of children to government schools.
How did the us government deal with native americans?
The policy of the Native Americans was one of genocide, and removal. The unwritten policy was a " good Indian, was a dead one" and everything was done to make sure that was true. Native Americans were removed from homelands, killed in raids on villages, given blankets with smallpox on them, starved, walked to death, hung, placed in camps and reservations, taken to schools away from families, and lied to.
