Monday: Continued powerpoint
US Native American Policies:
Assimilation- a way of making the Native Americans “White”- sent children to white boarding schools- striping them of their cultures, We wanted them to become American so we didn’t have to fight them anymore
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854: significant because it pushed the Indian Tribes further west
Indian and Oklahoma Territory Merge in 1907 forming the State of Oklahoma: Governments opened up Indian and Oklahoma territory for settlement
Destruction of Buffalo: a way to eliminate the Indians- a lot of Indians starved to death
Dawes Act 1887: Gave land to Native American families to farm
160 acres to families, only 80 acres to unmarried adults
Ended tribal ownership of land
Those that do this will be granted US citizenship
Goal was to Americanize the Native americans (Assimilation)
Native Americans lost much of their land
Not required to do this but the other option was not good- live on a reservation, get killed
Ended in the 1930’s under President Roosevelt’s Indian Reorganization Act
Tuesday: Worked on Indian vs US battles project
Wednesday: Worked on Presentations
Thursday: Presented projects
*Battle of Little Bighorn:
Lt Custer vs Indians
Fought on the Little Bighorn river
1 day deal
Indians won because the US was outnumbered
Battle of A Hundred Slain (Fetterman Fight):
Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho VS US Army
Fought in Wyoming
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud
60 Indians died, all 81 US men died
Attacked by wagon a lot
Worst attack in the west until the battle of Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee:
Sitting Bull was killed by police
Sioux indians vs US
150 Indians killed
25 troops of US men dead
Indians won
Sand Creek Massacre:
Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians vs US
Only took about 8 hours
Part of the American Indian war
Chief Black Kettle accepted new treaty to move camp, White Antelope tried to make a truce
15 US men killed, 148 indians (men, women, and children) were killed
Friday: Not in class- STUCO
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