Mostly what happened to the Indians was they were inundated by a sea of Whites that no power on earth could contain, many treaties were made in good faith which thirty years later would become totally redundant due to a massive influx of settlers.
This redundancy time decreased as the decades went by because population increase is an exponential process, took two centuries for the Frontier to reach the Appalachians, fifty years after that to inundate to the Mississippi and beyond, just 20 after that to occupy the whole rest of the Continent.
Meanwhile Indian populations were melting like snow from epidemics. Didn’t help any that, up until the very end, indians eerebutchering each other. Also didn’t help that when the Indians hit back at the Whites, most of the victims were women and children.
An estimated 2,000 Whites murdered, often savagely tortured beforehand from the Pennsylvania Frontier during the French and Indian War. Twenty years later an estimated 7,000 Whites murdered, often grotesquely tortured, along the Ohio Frontier during our Rev War. In one of the greatest bloodlettings in North America as many as 800 settlers, mostly women and children, murdered over a three week period during the 1863 Santee Sioux uprising.
The War of Seccession? Two- thirds of the US population, including significant areas in the South, willing to fight and die to preserve the Union.
