Native Americans

Chief Crazy Horse said, “We did not ask you white men to come here” (DiBacco 305). They fought hard; however, the Native Americans were not able to stop the white settlers from removing the Indians from their homeland, killing thousands of them, or forcing them to assimilate into the American culture.
First, the U.S. government created policies to remove and concentrate the Native Americans somewhere else. With the transcontinental railroad being finished in 1869, it gave more white settlers the opportunity to get land in the frontier (Dibacco 306). There was a problem because “they asked how two cultures so different from each other could live side by side” (DiBacco 306). The Indians knew that if they did not fight, they would lose their land. One plan was concentration. The attempted to keep the Indians in one specific area in the West. The Native Americans could live as normal, but within those borders. Hopefully this would decrease the fighting between the Nati...