The Relationship between the Indians and the White Man on the Frontier during the 1850s to the 1880s

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Relationship between the Indians and the White man on the Frontier during the 1850s to the 1880s

Introduction

The relationship between the Indians and the white man in the 1850s to the 1880s was not smooth . There had been a struggle between the Indians and the whites concerning land , which was at first owned by the Indians Some early American invaders bought land , thus recognizing the Indians as the rightful possessors , while others merely squatted where they landed and continued to

expand their holdings , ignoring prior Indian possession . Long before the western Indian country was invaded by the American trappers and settlers , this area had been a battleground of the warring Indian tribes . In these intertribal wars the larger and stronger tribes expelled the smaller , weaker ones from choice hunting territories . Mobile nomadic tribes preyed the farming Indians , who lived in more sedentary villages and grew crops in the river valleys nearby All this changed with the invasion of the Indian lands by the whites . In this essay , I will discuss the relationship that resulted from the Indians and the whites as a result of the land invasion

Whites invade the Indian 's land

Throughout the 19th century hostile Indians , the descendants of the aboriginal occupants of the region provided a major obstacle to the winning of the American West beyond the Mississippi river . It was there that many desperate Indian tribes made their heroic stand to preserve and fight for their traditional hunting...