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Eliminating the buffalo helped defeat the Native Americans. There was a demand for their hides

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What was the US government policy that brought the army into conflict with the Plain Indians?

Killing off the Indian's food supply (Buffalo).


What role did the buffalo play in the conflict between the native Americans and the US government?

The government saw that by killing the buffalo they were killing Indians from starvation the government told anyone who went on the train across the Indian land could bring Guns and shoot the Buffalo as they went by. When the train had stopped by and the shooting had stopped people the government had hired would either shed the buffalo from its skin or use the meat, sometimes both. In fact the American army was alerted to come down to the west and help kill the Indians and any buffalo they see.


What is buffalo hides?

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What role did the buffalo play in the conflict between Native Americans and the US government?

The government saw that by killing the buffalo they were killing Indians from starvation the government told anyone who went on the train across the Indian land could bring Guns and shoot the Buffalo as they went by. When the train had stopped by and the shooting had stopped people the government had hired would either shed the buffalo from its skin or use the meat, sometimes both. In fact the American army was alerted to come down to the west and help kill the Indians and any buffalo they see.


How many native Americans did African Americans kill?

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What did the Kiowa have to eat after the Buffalo were gone?

They starved to death, that was the intent of the US Government under the scorched earth policies that had killed and driven off the native american's in Texas.


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Were the europeans guilty of genocide during the disease ravages the native Americans?

Yes. They gave them blankets with smallpox and they killed whole villages on purpose. Sadly the unwritten policy of the US government was the only good Indian was a dead one. They did everything they could to kill as many Native Americans as they could. The government moved them off hunting grounds, sent troops to kill and raid villages, removed children to government schools, killed off buffalo, and these things were just a continuation of the European policy in North America. Columbus wrote in his diary that the natives he meet would make good slaves. The Spanish did make the Native Americans in the southwest slaves for their mines.


After the Civil War what did the US military build on the frontie?

After 1865, the end of the US Civil War, the US population expanded westward: the railroads were built, army outposts (forts) were built, dirt roads were built (for stage coaches/military paymasters, etc.). The US Army supplied 45-70 caliber ammunition free to buffalo (Bison) hunters to kill off the buffalo (to starve out the plains Indians); thus allowing the railroads to be constructed without interference from hostiles.


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