Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans

This past week in class we learned about the Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans. Some activities we did in class was we read documents and watched ABC Clio videos. These resources helped us to come up with the essential questions for the lesson, which is, Did the government have good intentions when enacting policies for westward expansion? In what ways did these policies impact the Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans? This question is asking if the government enforce the policies with the hope of benefiting anyone other than themselves or did they want to harm the people or was it an accident. 

Buffalo Soldiers were a group of black soldiers. Native Americans are the original habitants of America. The Buffalo Soldiers were provided with all their supplies from the government, seems like a good thing right? Well it wasn't because the government provided them with the old sick and beat up horses, ratty used uniforms, and also their military training and shelter. I believe that the government knew what they were doing could potentially backfire and not have a good outcome of the Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans. By providing them with the defective supplies is setting them up for failure. This negativity effected the Buffalo Soldiers and Natives. They had more restrictions that held them back from doing what they wanted and they were being discriminated against. The rules also provoked fights between the natives and soldiers. this is another reason why is was a negative effect. 

The government tried to make it look like they cared by providing them with supplies and such but in all honesty they knew what they were doing the second they started giving them reject horses and tattered uniforms. The policies were the icing on top pf an already crumbling cake. that was the last straw.