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Treatment of Different Native American Tribes

Different Native American tribes were accorded different treatment by the federal government, with differences deriving from the region in which the Indians resided, different administrations, different concerns about future conflict, prejudice, and so on. A comparison of the way the government treated the Indians of California, the Sioux, and the Navajo will show some of these differences and the reasons for them.

The Indians of the Far West are not as well known as the Indians of the Plains, but California and environs was home to scores of tribes and to hundreds of thousands of Indians. California was the most heavily populated region, and most Indians resided in small communities, surviving by hunting and collecting plant foods. Prior to 1846, these Indians were largely out of the way of the American expansion and so were let alone. Once the Mexican War began, the Indians were caught in the conflict between the Americans and the Mexicans. There were few Anglos in the area until the Mormons arrived in Utah in the late 1840s, and after that time there was conflict between the Anglo population and the Indian population. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 transferred California and the Great Basin to the United States. With the discovery of gold in 1848, there was a frenzy of settlers headed to this region seeking gold. Most of these new settlers were young men with little regard for Indian life or property, and the population was much reduced within a few years. The gold rush had a dark side for the Indian population.

An Indian agent from the federal government made a report in 1854 concerning the California mines and the condition of the Indians in the region. He has visited a number of the Indian camps to try to ascertain their exact number and has found this a difficult proposition. He finds that mortality has been high, another reason why it has been difficult to determine the exact number of persons in t...

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