Intentional Destruction of Native American Cultures America claims to be accepting of other cultures. We all have equal liberties; it even says so in our Constitution. Yet in the 1870’s, the United States of America did the antithesis. The destruction of Native American Cultures was intentionally and systematically carried out by greedy opportunists, corrupt government officials and well-meaning, but ignorant, social reformers. Greedy opportunists saw the Indian Territories as a way to make a fortune. Opportunists encouraged the Indians to kill extraordinary amounts of buffalo. Th