government itself had proposed and signed-the property of Native American tribes.Ĭonfronted with this problem, the U.S. government sent waves of settlers out to the Midwest and California, but much of the land west of the Mississippi was-according to treaties the U.S. The government began to expand into the western half of North America, the territory it had gained in the Mexican American War of the 1840s. During this period, the United States emerged from the Civil War battered on the one hand, and yet with its military and government more powerful than they’d ever been before. Dee Brown begins Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee with an overview of the major political forces in North America during the second half of the 19th century.
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