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EQ: How did the Americans solve the "Indian Problem"?

HW: 1. Start Reviewing for Test Wednesday 9/24 

Do Now: 

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1. Gvt. promised $, food, and land to Indians who settled in a limited area2. Settlers trespass as gold is found ­ some killed by Natives

Conflict between Plains Indians and Settlers

Fort Laramie Treaty (1851) Wyoming

How do we keep settlers safe?

Indian Appropriations Act/Reservations

• Natives live in a limited area• Undesirable locations (Oklahoma)• White settlers ignored treaties• Attempts to "Christianize" Indians

• Broken treaties ­ miners and settlers invade promised landsGrievances

(complaints) against White man

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Are the Native Americans better off on reservations?  Look at the images below and you decide.

Reservation wealth and poverty over time.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation c.1890

Pine Ridge Reservation c.1990

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• Destroy the buffalo

• Kill the buffalo for sport• Encourage hunting with propaganda

• No Buffalo = no Natives

Buffalo Harvest

PresidentialTreatment

• Government's policies aren't working• Want to make the Natives law abiding citizens• Want to educate them

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• Live like a white farmer by giving land & farming supplies to Indian families to farm (160 acres per family)• Problems? 1. Indians not farmers ­ crops fail

2. Some whites trick Indians to sell land at low prices

Assimilation ­ blending into another's culture, often abandoning your own.

Dawes Act

(1887)

• Christianizing• Sending young Native Americans to Boarding Schools• Kill their native culture and make the youth white

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• Valley in Montana, Sioux & Cheyenne leave their reservation (treaty violated by miners)•  Colonel George Custer loses battle against Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.  

How does the US government respond?

• Indians performing traditional dance (celebrate past)• Frightened settlers ­ became illegal• Sitting Bull killed ("accidently").  Seen as a troublemaker.

Little Bighorn 

(Custer's Last Stand 

& Greasey Grass)

Ghost 

Dance ­ 

1890

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Bale of Wounded Knee  ‑ Dec. 29, 1890• Indians were upset by their                  leaderʹs murder•         Siing Bullʹs death               terrified the Lakota  & they left reservations     

    

    

• US Army followed them to Wounded Knee Creek• Indians were giving up their rifles, shots rang out, 300 Indians were killed 25 US cavalry men died