Native Americans After Civil War

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After the Civil War, some dramatic changes were taking place as the aftermath. The Reconstruction treaties of 1866 required the five Southeastern tribes give up almost half of their lands for the resettlement of other Indian tribes. The federal government began almost immediately to remove tribal peoples from the Southern Plains to the ceded areas because they were pressured by white leaders in Kansas, who did not want Indians living in their state. Within twenty years, twelve to fifteen thousand exiles established homes in Indian Territory (pg. 131). Some of the impacts of exiling Indians into Indian Territory included the Wyandots, the Peorias, the Ottowas, and the Miamis were all exiles from Kansas and settled on a small reservation that