I am sort of confuse becouse this is phrased as one question (at first i thought you where talking about the recent fight about not putting in a pipeline but i relized you said why DID)
So i will split it into 2 Native americans fought for land becouse for one they needed a place to live and second they belived the great spirit wanted them to live where they did
They fought for water to live/drink
Farmers were probably the hardest hit group of people during the Great Depression. They were already having a tough time from the 1920's because during WWl, they had been making record numbers of crops that were being sent over seas, but once the war ended they ended up with a surplus which dropped the price of wheat and farmers could hardly make a living. Farmers had also bought tractors and farm equipment with an installment plan, which means they buy now and pay later. This caused many farmers to go into debt because once the depression hit they no longer could afford to pay them off. To make matters worse, unsafe farming practices, like not rotating crops, cause the top soil to blow off and huge dust storms, called the Dust Bowl occurred making life miserable for farmers and their families.
