Differences Between Westward Expansion And Native Americans

During the time period of American westward expansion, settlers and Native americans had contrasting experiences. While Natives were continually and forcefully pushed off their. Settlers were searching for opportunity in the west, a land of new beginnings. Native land and culture was all but stifled out by western expansion.
The First Way Native Americans were impacted by western expansion was in there land. For example From 1850 to 1870 natives lost most their land. This was to prevent conflict between them and the railway companies moving through their land but also to quote get them out of the way for people moving westward because of the homestead act. They were put on preservation a fraction of the size of the land they had before.(Doc 1.) And after all of that now there land is
(Doc 3.) And now the current land in the fort laramie treaty which is considerably smaller than the original is being taken again by the keystone pipeline it runs right through the natives land.(Native tribes unite… Robert boos) And finally the sand creek massacre was the nail in the coffin for native being treated well here us troops killed 200 native most being women and children. For there land which was known to have gold on it. (Doc 2.) Therefore Natives want to keep their original land because they have been on it for generations.The second way Native americans were impacted by westward expansion was in there culture. For example one of the leading causes to the demise of the native was the extinction of the the buffalo This was one of the leading causes to the demise of the natives Because the buffalo was their main resource do to the fact that the hard plains soil was difficult for their primitive tool to cut into which made large scale farming impossible. (Doc 5) Also natives were assimilated into white culture they cut their hair and change