Indians Right to Their Land
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Their land was stolen out from under them, their people killed or left to starve and freeze to death. Plains Indians filled the county before white settlers came. When settlers arrived they seemed to think they got to decide what land was whose. They began taking from the Indians and forcing them into smaller and smaller areas of land until the marjority of the country was settled and there was no room for the Indians to carry on their native way of life. Many feel that due to Manifest Destiny, the white man had all the right to do as he pleased with the land west of the Mississippi River. But, it was the Native Americans land first. The plains Indian had a more valid claim to the western lands than the white man and were justified in the ways they defended those lands because the white mans ways of acquiring this land was inappropriate, promises made to the Indians were frequently broken, and the white man invaded the Indians territory, not vice versa.
The way the white man handled the situation of expanding westward was not only inappropriate, but also inhumane. The white man killed many plains Indians during the war, but he also killed many unnecessarily and out of a wartime scenario. The white man provoked the Indian to retaliate by harming everyone in the tribes- including women and children...