The Transcontinental Railroad has provided many good and bad things to the United States. Among the bad were the effects it had on the American Plains Indians.
The railroad tore through their lands, scaring away the buffalo, the life of the Plains Indians. In one speech at Promontory Point, Utah, Chief Sitting Bull cursed the Americans, saying they had ruined his life, property, and livelihood.
Clearly, the Indians had no sympathy whatsoever for any of the Americans, a thought supported by the massacre of the Indian folk at Wounded Knee.
For a more complete history of the Plains Indians, please read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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