One little-known aspect of the civil war was the union's continuing wars against the native americans in the west. identify the statements that accurately describe native americans and the union in the west during the civil war. a. the navajo's long walk was the navajo people's forced removal from the their ancestral lands by the u. s. army. b. the cherokee, forced to oklahoma by the indian removal act, still owned slaves and sided with the confederacy at the time of the civil war. c. the u. s. army attacked the kiowas and comanches in the southwest in retaliation for raids on settlements and ranches.