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A 5 page paper which examines the perspectives and conditions of the Native Americans during the last half of the 19th century. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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With the war over much of the tension was gone and the future was to be grabbed, sometimes ferociously, in order to move forward into a new age and a
new level of achievement for the American people. Unfortunately this meant sure destruction for the Native American people. They were essentially in the way and any previous agreements were seen
as invalid in the face of the future of white men. The following paper examines three different excerpts or quotes, from three different books. These quotes, examined together, can provide
a powerful understanding of the last half of the 19th century as the United States destroyed the natives and expanded. The works from which the quoates come are "Framing America"
by Pohl, "Black Elk Speaks" by Neihardt, and "The Economic Transformation of America" by Heilbroner and Singer. Native Americans in the 19th Century In Pohls work, "Framing America,"
the author notes that, "The last quarter of the 19th century was far from tranquil for Native peoples. Once the Civil War was over, the army turned its attention to
the final eradication of Native resistance to westward expansion and to the continued confiscation of the land granted them under earlier treaties" (225). In this we see that with
the battle between the North and the South done, the future held some promise. But, that future could not exist if the Natives still had control over a great deal
of land. Prior to the Civil War there was not quite the concern with how much land was available to the white man partly because the South had a great
deal of slaves and thus had free labor to work their land. After the Civil War there were many people who wanted land who did not have it before, many
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