Conflict and tension
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- Created on: 23-06-18 13:26
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- Conflict and Tension
- Tension between settlers and Indians
- Resources were scarce
- Whites mistook Indian raids for attacks
- White settlers racist towards Indians
- Believed the Indians were inferior
- White settlers travelling across Plains
- Killed Buffalo, causing stampedes
- Ruined Indian organisation of herds
- Built Forts
- Disrupted Indian's hunting lands
- Killed Buffalo, causing stampedes
- Whites feared Indians
- Believed they would be attack and scalped
- Limited natural resources
- Whites used what little the Indians relied on
- Increased conflict between tribes
- Whites perceived Indians to be violent
- Became violent back
- Whites perceived Indians to be violent
- Indians spied on whites
- Whites became nervous
- Resources were scarce
- The Fort Laramie Treaty 1851
- Terms
- US Government would
- Pay an annuity of $50,000 as long as the terms were kept
- Protect the tribes from white Americans (including settlers)
- Plains Indians would
- Allow railroad surveyors on their land
- Refrain from attacking any whites that crossed their land
- End the fighting between tribes
- Allow the government to build roads and army posts in their land
- Pay compensation if any Indian from their tribe broke a term
- US Government would
- Limitations
- Not enough translators
- Not all of the representatives understood what they were signing
- Representatives
- Treaty was required to be signed by a representative from each tribe
- Not how Indian society worked so not all Indians felt bound to follow it
- Treaty was required to be signed by a representative from each tribe
- Not all the tribes attended
- Lands were split between tribes
- Indians did not understand this as they believed no-one owned land
- Not enough translators
- Significance
- Teritories set out
- Led to reservations
- White settlers allowed onto Indian territory
- White settlement of Plains
- Railroad surveyors and army posts allowed on Indian land
- White settlement of Plains
- Tribes to receive resources from Government
- Loss of Indian way of life
- Teritories set out
- Terms
- Tension between settlers and Indians
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