Native American Settlers

Indian Wars were series of conflicts between white settler or government of United States and Native Americans. Conflicts started almost immediately after settlers begun to move to the North America and ended in the early 20th century. During this time all the Native Tribes were one by one moved to the reservation where a lot of them live until today. They had to change the way they lived and their culture was almost destroyed. They weren’t prepared for this change and today’s Native Americans have to live with consequences of it.

What were the reasons for Indian wars? In1492 Christopher Columbus discovered the New World and there he also discovered human beings—people who had their own religion, traditions and society. Most of them wanted
Soldiers came to the village and wanted to disarm Indian men. It’s not really clear how the gunfire started. One of the theories is that, deaf Indian didn’t want to give up his rifle. When the gunshots once started, soldiers were killing not just armed men but also women and children. “This accounts for ninety-two men killed and leaves but few alive and unhurt. The women and children broke for the hills when the fight commenced and comparatively few of them were hurt and few were brought in” (“Another Battle” 2). This is a description from newspaper from January 2. Actually there were up to three hundred killed, mostly women and
But on the borders between United States and Mexico conflicts went longer than anywhere else. Last one was registred in Arizona at 1924 but at that time it was very rare event. During the long wars were lost a lot of lives on a both sides. “The Indian wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number. They have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians” (Report, 637). There were probably more lost lives than this report states because it’s a report from 1894 and there were some conflicts after and at that time they didn’t care about the number of Indians that were killed. During these long wars Indians lost their strength to resist. By the beginning of 20th century there were no Indians that would lived free outside the reservations. Land where they used to live was populated with white farmers. Indians didn’t lose just their home but also their independence. They were had to rely on U. S. government’s food, clothing and other