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What conflict did the Americans have with the native Americans?

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First there was when the Europeans came then after pushing them farther west they left the Native Americans...
After about 50 years or so, the Americans came up the idea of "Manifest Destiny" it is in the bible and since religion was a big thing back then, well? They followed the "Manifest Destiny" which means 'manifest' to take over and 'destiny' well as in fate. Then came the Homestead Act of 1862 were:

Head of family must be male
21 years old or over
Was given 160 acres of land
All given in one condition: must improve the land they were given in some way in about five years.

Since the NA (Native Americans, too lazy to type that out now :P) lived in the west, obviously the Americans "claimed" the land the minute they had picked which one they wanted and NA did not believe in 'property' they believed in 'sharing' again obviously this wasn't to go well... So they fought. This is all I am going to put because you simply asked what conflict the NA had with the Americans. This was one of them, others were just battles nothing really big like war. Sorry if I ranted on for too long ):

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