2006-09-18 12:19:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
They were corralled and decimated, with no land left to live on. Besides that, not much...
2006-09-18 12:22:38 · answer #1 · answered by thrag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expansion of Americans into the west diminished the land mass over which the natives had free reign. They were ultimately, and sadly relegated to reservations after their numbers were greatly reduced. It is a tragic event in American history; but, should the Native Americans outnumbered the Europeans and had they been technologically more superior than the Europeans, and had they canoed to Europe, the Europeans would have been pushed over cliffs. This was a phenomenon of human nature, the likes of which have seldom occurred - two peoples of varying levels of technology and commonalities coming together. Eventually, a bloody clash was inevitable.
2006-09-18 12:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They lost their land and many of their families died. Greed on the white man was the reason for the westward expansion.
2006-09-18 12:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by poet_by_nature 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It robbed them of their hunting grounds, gave them white man's diseases, introduced them to whisky, and totally changed their lives as they had known them.
2006-09-18 12:23:05 · answer #4 · answered by beez 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋