Apache Indians

primitive style clothing, such as moccasins, leggings, a loincloth, and a deerskin shirt.....

primitive style clothing, such as moccasins, leggings, a loincloth, and a deerskin shirt.....

simple ponchoas as shirts......

pettiecoats beneath their skirts...

The conflict between American settlers and Native Americans was usually over territorial rights. Settlers saw the Native Americans to be obstacles to "progress". The Native Americans quite understandably were shocked to see that land that had been their homelands for centuries were now at the mercy of swarms of settlers and US Treaties that were created to basically greatly restrict where they could live.

Violence over land rights reached a serious level of violence. Much of it at the hands of settlers against the Native Americans.

The disputed lands were for the most part under Federal control. The idea that this was a capitalist vs socialist dispute is strange to say the least. Ideas that state capitalists believe they can own public resources to the exclusion of society is self contradictory.

The idea that Native Americans were socialistswould mean that they have control over the means of production. Native American tribes hunted and were growers of crops and many were also very nomadic. They respected to a point the presence of other Native American tribes, however, it was their custom to stay in recognized boundaries.

Europeans came here and imposed their society on the Native Americans, this imposition was in direct contrast of every single cultural value practiced in this land for 10,000 years before they came here. Most societies soon learned that the Europeans were not human by the standards of these cultures, they were something outside of nature.

Settlers would break treaties, bringing on disputes that led to violence. Federal treaties took advantage of Native Americans. This again led to more disputes and violence. For example, settlers and Native Americans agreed to share land but the settlers broke many of the treaties.

Sadly many Americans viewed Native Americans as inferior beings and "savages".

They stood in the way of the "Divine Providence" idea that meant that God had ordained the Continental USA to be under the control of the new Americans.

Center to the territorial problems between Native Americans and settlers was the idea that Native Americans were in the way of the American idea the "Divine Providence" notion that meant God had destined the USA to reach from coast to coast, and that Christians were meant to dominate all areas in between.

Thus Native American claims to their homelands that existed for hundreds of years, were invalid. The "reservation" system was for all practical purposes, a one sided arrangement that placed Native Americans at a disadvantage.

The history of massacres between the two groups became an ingrained mindset between the settlers and Native Americans. The US citizen view that Native Americans were wild and inferior savages added weight to incursions by the settlers.

You mean before Europeans got to the Americas. Before 1492 horses had been extinct in North America since the Ice Age (and they had only been very small prehistoric horses, not suitable for riding). The Spanish re-introduced horses to the Americas after 1492.

Bows and arrows were invented at about the same time in many parts of the world, including North, Central and South America - before that development the spear-thrower or atlatl was widely used. Spears were also widely used in hunting and warfare, as were shields of various kinds.

Since no native American group developed the technology to smelt iron ore, the production of swords was impossible. They did work certain soft metals such as gold and copper, but mainly for ritual objects and jewellery.

Bows, war clubs and stone knives were the main weapons among most native tribes.