the permanent indian frontier

• us citizens moving westwards

  • only lived in east coast
  • settlements only moved westwards & by 1830s settlers moved beyond mississippi river- attracted by fertile farmland
  • Population grew=more demand for land
  • growing belief in gov and among us citizens that it was usa's duty to expand westward
• frontier created

  • some land that settlers wanted to farm was occupied by indigenous tribes
  • believed their way of life was uncivilised and inferior- wanted them moved off the land
  • 1830: indian removal act- authorised the president to grant tribes land on the great plains in exchange for their land in east.
  • 1840:most eastern tribes been moved to plain- 70,000-100,000 people in total
  • intention: plains indians would live on the plains like on one big reservation- boundary between two regions
• settlers began to encroach the plains

  • settlers began to move across the plains to the west coast
  • began to settle on the east coast of the plains
  • created conflict between the settlers and plains indians
  • plains indians: didn't like settlers moving across the land and 2 groups couldn't live together
  • nomadic culture of indigenous peoples clashed with the desires of the settlers to fence off and settle the land