The West

The West

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November 1, 2015

Tabitha Otieno

When it comes to talks about the west, we all think of cowboys and Indians. Yet this was not more than that, it was tragic when we think about it. When it comes to change America has always had a hard time with it. They fear anything that may be different than them, and when that fear takes over, that’s when people go to war over it.

“How did the culture of the Plains Indians, specifically the Lakota Sioux, change in the late 19th century?”

When Americans traveled at first they were just trying to settle with their families, and at first the Indians did not think much about them, not until the gold rush. When people started to hear about the gold that was out west, they traveled through the land of Lakota Sioux. They drove out the animals that the Indians had hunted, which for the Indians the biggest thing they hunted was bison. They also with how they treated the land, had made the water bad, and it was a lot of changes for them. The Americans also brought in a lot of diseases that the Indians were not use to. They had to adjust to new things, while this was their land, the Americans felt they needed to push out the Indians, they felt that these Indians were not civilized, and that they needed to be fixed.

Now they are living on reservations, and are still trying to get their land back, they did win a settlement, but they will not take it, all they want is their land back and be freed from the United States.

“Describe President Grant’s Peace Policy and the subsequent widespread adaptation of the reservation as a solution to dealing with the Native Americans in the western territories. What was life like on a reservation in, say, 1890?”

“The "Peace Policy” of the...