examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed
to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern
Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own.
These two Indian groups viewed the world in different ways. The
Southeastern Indians, primarily Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks,
Chickasaws, and Seminoles, were agricultural peoples. By the
nineteenth century they were adopting American "civilization":
codified laws, Christianity, market-driven farming, and a formal,
Euroamerican style of education. By contrast, the hunter-gathers of
the Southern Plains-the Comanches, Kiowas, Wichitas, and Osages-had
a culture based on the buffalo. They actively resisted the Removed
Indians' "invasion" of their homelands.
The Removed Indians hoped to lessen Plains Indian raids into
Indian Territory by "civilizing" the Plains peoples through
diplomatic councils and trade. But the Southern Plains Indians were
not interested in "civilization" and saw no use in farming. Even
their defeat by the U.S. government could not bridge the cultural
gap between the Plains and Removed Indians, a gulf that remains to
this day.
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