SUBJUGATION OF INDIANS IN THE WEST

APUSH – Spiconardi

Buffalo

“Kill every buffalo you can. Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”

~ Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge. U.S. Army

Buffalo

After the introduction of the horse by the Spanish, Native American culture shifted Changed from farming and hunting on foot

to mounted buffalo hunting

Buffalo

Buffalo herds often ripped up train track and caused a problem for the railroads

Railroad companies would often feed their workers buffalo meat

Buffalo

Tanning Tanneries paid

hunters $ 1 to $3 for hides Hides were sent

east to be used as belts on industrial machines

Hunters often left carcasses and other potential uses of the buffalo were wasted

Buffalo

What are some of the consequences for Indians due to the rapid decline of the buffalo population?

Buffalo

A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell, a death-wind for my people.

Sitting Bull

Government Policy: Remaking Indian Life

Using the documents and info presented in the mini lesson, create a thesis answering the following question: What was the goal/purposed of the U.S.

government’s policy towards Indians between 1869 and 1900?

Document 3 Document 4

Indian Response

Elk v. Wilkins (1884) John Elk, an native

American born on a reservation, but moved to Omaha, sought to become a U.S. citizen and exercise his right to vote in the election of 1880

Supreme Court ruled that Indians born on reservations are born on land not under U.S. jurisdiction, so 14th and 15th amendments do not apply to Indians

Indian Response

Ghost Dance Religious revitalization movement in which

Indians believed sacred dances would Bring a return of the buffalo Bring a great storm that would drive whites back

across the Atlantic Allow Indians to practice their ancestral customs

U.S. Response: Wounded Knee 1890

Genocide the deliberate killing or extermination of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group

Can the U.S. policy towards Indians be

labeled genocide? Why or why not?