Native Americans after the common war kept on possessing the Great Plains and also the Mountain West. The Native Americans attempted their hardest to secure both their property and culture, yet the expansionist strategies of the whites, including their railways, mining, and domesticated animals, unfathomably diminished Native American land areas. While their property was being drained, white ailments which was had come as a result of the presence of the white people also attacked their populace. The American government endeavored to keep the Native Americans in reservations, which undermined Native American presence in general.
