Buffalo SOldiers

In class this past week we learned a lot about Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans because we watched many videos and took specific notes on a class wide google doc about specific topics. We also read document and made questions that we will be seeing on the exam.This gave us key information as a class. Our essential question that we came up with as a class was "Was the discrimination that the Buffalo soldiers and Native Americans faced intentional or did the White settlers and federal government actually believe that what they were doing was just? "  

I believe that the discrimination that the Buffalo soldiers and Native Americans faced was definitely intentional. General Sherman's strategy of war was to remove the Buffalo soldiers. He would do anything to accomplish this. For example he basically destroyed all of their belongings. Native Americans were also forced out of their land and 90% of it went to Americans and the land that the Americans let the Native Americans have was useless. Farming was a big part of the Native Americans lives and the land they were given couldn't be farmed on. Also the government were against the Native Americans because they implemented the Dawes Act which enabled the government to take away Native American land. Native Americans were clearly discriminated against and that was not okay but they couldn't do anything to stop it.


Americans at this time basically bullied the Native Americans and the Buffalo soldiers. They took what they wanted and they gave them back the scraps. They set up the Native Americans to fail. The Native Americans couldn't do anything about it. Native Americans still feel the affects of this today.