This idea of Christianizing the Native population by force would continue throughout time, with Mohawk/Haudenosaunee during the late 17th century to early 18th century commenting on how the explorers during contacts "Would always have a minister with them (Grim, 1995, p. 446)." The concept created by the Puritans that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" in reference to the ones Natives were not "saved" peaked during the late nineteenth century with a "nearly genocidal assault on Native American civilization (Olson & Wilson, 1986). In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. For example, in 1867 a treaty gave joint reservation land of nearly three million acres to the Kowas, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apaches. This treaty closed the land to all non-Native Americans; however the Texas ranchers driving their herds north to Kansas would look with envy to graze their cattle on that land. Although the Native American police had the authority to fine the ranchers for grazing on their land, enforcement over the large swath of land was nearly impossible. By 1870 the ranchers were freely grazing on the reservation (Olson & Wilson, 1986).
African American History with Native American Comparisons.
While Native Americans were fighting for their land from encroaching settlers, Africans were being captured and brought to America. Slave ships from African nations into the Americas reached its first great wave between 1570 and 1640 (Wheat, 2011). The majority of these ships would embark from Upper Guinea and Angola with a smaller waver of captives from Lower Guinea. Slave trade was so common to this area that modern day Togo, Benin, and Eastern Ghana was referred to, in a 1727 Dutch Map, as the "Slave Coast." Slaves were considered no more than commodities, with nearby regions referring to the "Gold Coast," and "Grain Coast (Moll, 1727).