Problems Between The American Government and Native Americans

Since the colonists met the Indians, the Indians always seemed to be inferior in the whites perspective. During the period of 1865 to 1900, the Indians were following the same pattern in which the government broke treaties between the Indians and the Americans. Furthermore, the United States government not only broke treaties but often concluded in treaties in which the Indians lose a lot more then the United States loses. Overall, the statement in which the problems between the government and the Native Americans in the west were primarily caused by the unfairness of the government.

            The United States government is often making one-sided treaties in which these treaties contribute more problems when the government disregards the Indian portion of the deal. Such examples in which the Indians were given unfair or one-sided treaties would be when the Indians surrendered their lands for the ability to be left alone and obtain food and clothing. The United States then disregards their part of the treaty in which they were supposed to provide supplies by giving the Indians damaged supplies. Then the treaties are sometimes completely disregarded and lands are seized and game are killed. This caused problems which can easily be seen when the gold miners stampeded into Indian territory and the Indians retaliated. This war was called the Sioux War of 1876-77 and this led to a battle in which both sides faced moderate casualties. Obviously, the bias treaties between the government and the Indians lead to many major problems.

            However, the bias laws made by the government did not contribute to the problems between the Indians and the United States government in a few cases. Such an example would be the Dawes Act. This Act was completely bias because it eradicated all Indian society but this Act did not cause any noteable direct physical violence between the two regions. Instead the Dawes Act was even able to help increase the population of the dwindling Native Americans. Thus, to a great extent the bias of the government did cause a great deal of problems, but rarely the bias of the government did not cause any physical problems.