1820-1860 Numerous Reform Groups, Including Term Paper

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It was our land, and still they claimed it as if it were their own.

Not many years passed, and these Americans were everywhere among us - killing us, and driving us out of our ancient homes. They sent their soldiers to slaughter us, and later to collect us up to live beside their forts. They killed the buffalo on which so many of us depended for food, and so caused us to starve. And when we complain, when we tried to use their "laws" to help ourselves, they laughed at us, and told us that we had no rights. This land belonged to them. It was their "Manifest Destiny" to expand across the continent, and to take the land from the "savages" that lived there.

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They would bring God and civilization to all these places. They believed that only they were right, and that only their God was real. They defeated many of us, and tried to destroy our culture and way of life. Some of us continued to fight, but as their great war between the states ended, it did not look like there was much time left. We knew one or the other would have to win a total victory, and live alone on these lands. The United States, home liberty and freedom, would….....

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