Land ownership was the leading cause of the conflict between Native-American civilization and western settlement by American citizens. The entry of the colonialists into Native America was the beginning of the suffering of the Native Americans. The colonialists considered themselves civilized and did not want to stay in the same lands s the Native Americans. They wanted to take the Native American lands by buying them at a lower price and evicting the Indians to move from the east to west. However, this was difficult at first because of the proclamation that prohibited occupation of land acquisition beyond the eastern ranges. This did not last for long as the Revolutionary War changed it all; the settlers had gotten access to the native land by either buying it or exchanging it with a land in the east. Policy The first policy that the settlers were suing was the assimilation policy where they claimed that they wanted to civilize the Indians. However, the situation changes in 1812 when the policy of assimilation of the native lands was no longer effective, and the Indians forcefully moved to the west. This was because of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, (Cassinelli pp 114). The forceful eviction of the Native Americans from their lands referred to as the Cherokee as the Trail of Tears. Many Indians lost their lives due to the long walk they had to make, to the lands in the western part of the Mississippi river. The native Indians not only lost their lands but also their culture in this eviction. Other Indians lost their lives as they were organizing attacks against the settlers. They had the determination to protect their culture and land, but the law and the settlers were too powerful. The Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles resolved to join the Confederate conference in 1861. They sent representatives to the conference to voice their suffering. However, the natives got punished after the war. The natives had to sell their lands at extremely low prices, give up their territories, and agree to let the railway pass through their land. Dawes Act The main blow came in 1887 when the Dawes Act was put into effect. The act stated that the communal land holding was no longer accepted and that everyone should hold private lands. The Indians were given twenty five years to start owning private lands after which they would become eligible citizens of America. The policy aimed at reducing the land owned by the Indians and gave it to the settlers. Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the yeoman was the one who had the idea of taking the land. He envisioned a land full of farmers doing different activities that can generate income. This is how they saw the lifestyles of the native Americas; a life with no vision. The Euro Americans wanted to teach the Native Americans their way of life because they saw themselves as more superior than the natives. They saw their way of life as the most civilized of all cultures. This was because the Indians valued land and did not believe in cultivation of all the land. The Euro-Americans considered this a waste of fertile land that was fertile and could be put into use. The motive behind the assimilation of the native American into the European way of doing thins was to destroy the Native American culture by assimilating them into the main stream society, (Parks, Pierpont Morgan Library, Nelson, Wiles pp 132). Forceful Education The other policy of assimilation was the forceful education system that us