In what ways did American-Native American relations involve conflict?

When colonists arrived in America, it was already occupied by a very unique group of people. Colonists had good relations with these people for awhile, trading with them and living among them without too much violence. The tension and violence escalated when the United States became a country. When this happened more and more people came and more settlers came slowly moving west into their new country's land. As they did this, they started to occupy too much Native American land, and tension began to rise. The Native American people's land is their number one asset. They lived off of all that it provided and there was a spiritual connection with nature and its resources as well. When settlers came they started to destroy this asset and occupy it themselves. There wasn't immediate war, but after a number of years Native Americans began to defend their land, and conflict slowly started to get more serious. Many Native American leaders, such as Tecumseh, formed Native alliances and tried in different ways to create forces powerful enough to stop settlers' encroachment. This often ended with little success, as the white people had more advanced weaponry and numbers. The fact that their land was being taken from them was the number one reason for conflict between Natives and American people. After years of complicated conflict and attempts to save their homes, the Native Americans started to be forced to move out of the land they had lived on forever and move west. Even our government, in 1830, put in place an act that would remove all Natives from east of the Mississippi and make them live on reserved land west of the Mississippi. The moving of the people was not easy and quite devastating for some tribes. Once on reservations, Native life was extremely difficult because of the lack of resources. The Natives were not able to live self-sufficiently, because the land they were put on was unfamiliar and poor for producing much of anything. In some cases, the tribes were forced to live among other tribes that they had been enemies with for centuries. The history of Native American relations in this country began when colonists first arrived, and slowly progressed through time producing in the end a brutal story and mistreatment and devastation for an entire people.