ABSTRACT
Since European immigrants arrived in North America, a series of cultural conflicts and wars began over the immigrants seizing Native American (Indian) lands. New diseases, especially cholera and measles, carried by the European immigrants, destroyed whole tribes and weakened Native American resistance to invasion. Before the Civil War, Native Americans east of the Mississippi River had been decimated; resettled onto lands in present Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas; or absorbed into the new Anglo American culture.
