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The most important factors contributing to the end of Indian independence were a lack of one Indian government, disease and hunger caused by the Napikwans, and being viewed as savages and not people by the seizers. Specifically, the Indian government consisted of many bands governed by different chiefs,
It is important for us to know what Mountain Chief and Heavy Runner think…Mountain Chief wishes to deal harshly with the Napikwan, while Heavy Runner would seek to clean their long-shoes. The other chiefs fall in the middle and could perhaps be persuaded one way or the other (Welch 254).
The many bands that make up the Pikuni tribe cannot agree on how to deal with the Napikwans and therefore cannot reach peace or go to war. The Indians cannot succeed in war without forming one army,
Indian resistance crumbled in small-scale wars. In 1873, a group of Modocs fled their northern California reservation, took refuge in an area of lava beds, and fought off the Army for seven months......

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