The Native Americans of the great plains depended on the buffalo. They ate its meat and made their clothing and homes from its skins.
White men's guns killed the buffalo depriving the Native Americans of food, clothing, and shelter. White men's cows ate the grass the buffalo needed. White men's fences prevented the buffalo from changing pastures.
Thus, the white men made it impossible for the Native Americans to continue their relationship with the buffalo.
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The Native Americans were threatened because the newcomers wanted the land the Native Americans had and they fought for it and won
The radical Native American group that called for Native American lands to be returned is the American Indian Movement.
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The stealing of Native American ancestral lands and the removal to reservations.
Americans took Native American lands away from them and forced them to move west to the worst lands. They took Native American children away from their parents and put them in schools taking away the Native American languages and culture. They gave them blankets infected with small pox which killed thousands.
By steady encroachment backed up by heavy handed militias and the US Army.