The movement started with farmers who drove the Cotton Kingdom toward the west. More individuals started to move out west alongside the Cotton Kingdom with expectations of discovering gold in California and the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Native Americans were forced to give up their land and move onto reservations whenever gold or silver was found on their land. This conflict between the settlers and Native Americans as a group was known as the
Indian Wars. The Native Americans had enough and started to decline to surrender their territories to the settlers.
The result was wicked, for instance in 1861 a gathering of Cheyenne Indians ran numerous strikes and assaults on white settlers. The U.S. military reacted back by assaulting and murdering 270 Native Americans and was known as the Sand Creek Massacre. The Sioux Indians retaliated against the white settlers. In 1876, General George Custer drove a bewilderment strike on the Sioux at the Battle of Little Big Horn, where Custer and his men were killed. This is known as "Custer's Last Stand".
After 1890, There was a huge conflict between the Sioux and United States troops. The troops suppose that the Native American “Ghost Dance” was called for war, but it was to bring back buffalo and return the Native American to their land. The leader was Killed “Sitting Bull” because the U.S. government sent out threats. Also, U.S. soldiers killed 150 Native Americans that were mostly unarmed. This battle between the Sioux and U.S were known as the Battle of Wounded Knee.
The United States constrained Native Americans to drop their way of life get to resemble standard white society. They wanted to Americanize the Indians and it was known as assimilation. In 1887, When the Dawes Act was passed, it compels all absorption by nullifying tribal associations and it additionally separated reservations lands with the end goal of apportioning terrains to individual Native Americans families. In 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson distributed a book that depicted how despicable Native Americans were dealt with by their government. The book was called "The Century of Dishonor".