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As European settlement began moving farther west and claiming more land. what happened to relations between colonists and American Indians?

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Relations between colonists and American Indians deteriorated rather quickly, because whereas the Indians only wished to peacefully coexist with the pioneers and nature as one, the pioneers felt it was their sole duty and right to take the land for themselves and teach the American Indians their ways and standards of living.
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