The indian conflicts in the west—especially in the great plains—arose because native americans and settlers had completely different ways of life. write describing how both groups used the land, and explain how their ways of life conflicted.

Native Americans lived freely in the lands. It belonged to the tribes and not to individuals and anyone could use its wealth as long as it wasn't exploitation or destructive. They practiced their cultural beliefs and didn't think that there should be a reason for them to move out of the land.

The Settlers were capitalists so they wanted the land to use it for agriculture and hunting and things like that and to sell it and buy it individually as personal property. They also believed that the Natives were savages and that their beliefs were blasphemous and that they had no claim to the land at all.

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