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The Native American experience with western expansion was a horrible one. With the Americans forcing them off of their own land, they were basically forced to leave their homes and be forced to live on small amounts of land. as the Americans began to make budget cuts, they began to supply the Native Americas with less and less, forcing many into starvation and death. At the beginning when the war was still going on, the American killed off all of the Indian supplies. By eliminating the buffalo, the Americans were getting profit for themselves off of the skin, and getting food to feed the soldiers, but the native Americans were stuck with nothing. when they were left with no supply of food, they were forced to have the American government help them. Another affect on the Native Americans was that the Americans were forcing them to end the practice of their religion. The Americans tried to force their own religion onto the native Americans, and to make sure that they would except them, the Americans made it against the law to do anything related to Native American religions, including singing, dancing, and even praying to the wrong god. To be forced out of your homes and to be made to believe a new religion must have been a traumatizing experience, leaving the Native American's with a lasting hatred towards the Americans who ruined their ways of life.
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The intersections between the native Americans and the whites that had just arrived, was that of a horrible experience. The were butchered and slaughter in huge numbers, all for the sake of a little bit of land, and some natural resources. They were forced off of their land, and made to live on very small amounts of land, with many people on them. They had no animals to hunt for food, and many went hungry. They had no access to medicine, and if you had gotten sick, you had a very high chance of dying. These communities because filled with poverty, and eventually destroyed the ways of these people. In some areas, there were even laws against practicing their native religions, and they were forced to become new Americans. To be forced out of their homes must have been a horrible feeling, and I can not imaging myself ever feeling this way.
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