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Why did the Native Americans lose the battle for the plains?
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Why did the Native Americans lose the battle for the plains? For centuries the Native American Indians had lived in relative peace and harmony then in the19th century everything changed. By the 1870's the Native American Indians were either imprisoned on reservations or assimilated into white American society. They had lost all right to the plains, their former home. The conflict for the plains between Indians and whites lasted for many decades and as the 19th century progressed the conflict deepened. The Indians were to lose the conflict for many reasons; I am going to investigate these reasons in this essay. The white Americans helped to bring about the Indians' defeat, virtually as soon as they started settling the west (in the 1820's) and as more of the American population started to follow the trailblazers these settlers began to have more of an effect on the Indian way of life....
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