How Did The White Man's Impact On Native Americans

The impact of the white man in the western united states caused many problems for the native Americans, but also helped shape the west. The united states were fairly impacted in many ways because of the arrival of the white man in the early American west in the 1800s. Many Native American tribes lived in the American west but as the white men started arriving and moving westward they pushed the American Indians aside and further populated the west. The Native Americans wanted the land for hunting and gathering while the white man believed that unfarmed land and land that did not obtain permanent homes was a waste. As the Settlers migrated west, the Native American tribe were also made to migrate from their lands to make way for the homes and the railroad being built.
Buffalo was the main source of food and clothing for the Native Americans, not only was needed for the natives but it was also needed to feed the white men who were working on the railroad and who were apart of the U.S army. Settlers more often than not killed the buffalo for a sport which created the food shortages for the Native Americans. Treaties were soon designed to help keep peace among the white man and the Natives, these were not always kept. As these treaties were being broken battles often arose due to the treatment of the natives. As the years passed and the Indian reservations were built and now housed the natives, The continental railroad being completed mining had become more prominent to not only the white man but also the Chinese who transferred to the U.S to mine. Mining caused for the first of the Chinese to not be allowed to come into the United States. This was a very dangerous activity and you would not want to be known as the person with lots of