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From the Path of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American background is incomplete minus the addition of the Native Americans that resided on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, dialect, and culture. But among all the Native North american tribes, the Spanish, Mexicans, and Us citizens learned the hard way that the warriors of tribes in the Southwest, especially the Apache and Comanche, were possibly the fiercest in North America. As the Apache are inextricably associated with one of these most famous market leaders, Geronimo, the conflict between the Comanche and white settlers in the Southwest was specifically barbaric. During Comanche raids, all adult males would be killed outright, and sometimes women and children achieved the same fate. On many situations, older children were considered captive and slowly but surely adopted into the tribe, until they slowly but surely forgot life amongst their white family members and accepted their roles in Comanche world. Popular accounts written by whites who had been captured and resided among the Comanche only helped bring the terror and the tribe closer to home among all Us citizens back east as well. As the 19th century progressed, the "Buffalo Indians", as the many groups in your community were called, were well modified and thrived in their environment. The middle of the century, however, proved to be significantly challenging to the Native North american tribes as the U.S. federal desired to contain, if not eliminate, these nomadic hunters to be able to exploit the spot and its resources for the advancement of westward growth. Once the Civil War came to an end finally in 1865, it allowed for an elevated military presence in Texas and the Southern Plains region. Further, the intercontinental railroad was completed in 1868, which increased the pace of the travel of goods to the East and migrant settlers to the West. The risk of civilians encountering hostile Native tribes was common, and for the government to promote white arrangement in the Southern Plains, the "Indian Problem" needed to be swiftly dealt with. The Indian Bureau and Native Americans of the spot agreed to scantily enforced treaties which were skewed largely and only the government, while local elders noticed little choice but to signal the treaties, aware of the might of the American military services and knowing that minus the pacts, the probability of a conflict was likely. Once the treaties went unenforced and the Native Americans acquired little of the alleviation promised by the government, war did, in reality, follow. Tensions had risen in your community over several decades, and the outbreak of conflict came in 1874 due to the increased encroachment of white buffalo hunters onto Native American land, having less enforcement of the Drugs Lodge Treaty, and the behaviour of military market leaders toward Native Us citizens. The Red River War of 1874-1875 pitted the Southern Plains tribes against the united states Army, and it would end up being the ultimate Indian war in your community.
