Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Adderhold, Dorothy Holland

Titel

The Wars of the Sioux

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

1958

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For over forty years the Plains Indians fought to preserve their homeland and their ancestral way of life. They were continually being pushed westward from the more desirable lands, and the treaties they signed were being broken by the government. The Indian question came to be a serious one as men passed through the Plains on their way to Oregon and California in search of homes or timber, and later in search of gold in California and Montana. The United States Army was forced to police the Plains from Canada to Mexico for twenty-five years after the close of the Civil War. This region was the scene of many conflicts between the red men and the white. The two strongest tribes were the Sioux in the north and the Apaches in the south. The Sioux were hostile toward any movement of the white man to cross their hunting grounds. Finally disease and diminishing food supplies, rather than bullets and soldiers, brought about the Indian's downfall.