The Influence Of The Treaty Of Fort Laramie In 1851

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It was common for the Americans to practice conquests. While the Native Americans were trying to coexist with their American counterparts and they were being forced into reservations during the following decades after the Civil War.During the altercation between the US government and the Native Americans, the government created the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851. Even though the Native Americans Even though the Native Americans agreed to this treaty in the hopes of preserving their land, they were greeted with the depletion of their people and resources. As the book stated,” To Americans raised on theories of racial superiority, the Indians constituted, in the words of one Colorado militia major, ‘an obstacle to civilization’...” (Roark, p

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