In your opinion, what was the biggest source of conflict between the United States and tribes living on the Great Plains before and during the Plains Wars? What eventually brought an end to the Plains Wars? Explain your answer in 75 to 100 words.

The great plains were the region of Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. In the 1840s, settlers moved west to the Great Plains as they were looking for gold and land.

Settlers were not the only inhabitant in the Great Plains but also had many Indians tribes. The government tried to get their land and sell it to settlers. Many of the Indians were hunters, not farmers. They relied on nature for their survival. Buffalo lived on the Great Plains, and Indians hunted them for food and other uses.

The destruction of Buffalo herds was the trainloads which allowed white men who shoot bison in the Plains. Bison killed as the government gave the authorization to shoot to clear land for farming and to make Native Indians declined. Native Indians depended on the bison for their fur, skin, meat, and fur.

The Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of wounded Knee, and Battle of the Little Bighorn were some of the famous battles. The defeat of the Indians brought an end of the conflict with sending them to live in the reservations.