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TOPIC 3-1American Indians Under PressureLearning ObjectivesCompare the ways Native Americans and white settlers viewed and used the land.Describe the conflicts between white settlers and Indians.Analyze the impact of the Indian Wars.Evaluate the effectiveness of the government’s Americanization and reservation policies towards American Indians.Background decades of disagreement, battles, forced migrations of Native Americans from their ancestral homes in the east1830s: most Native American tribes forced to settle west of the Mississippi River in Land was supposed to be “forever free” from white encroachment1840s/1850s: beginning of Early 1850s: series of treaties signed to create the beginning of the reservation systemOften resulted in forced migration of the tribes onto the reservation by the army1863: = massive white expansion westwardIndian WarsNomadic hunters on the Great Plains: Sioux, Blackfeet, Crow, Cheyenne, ComancheRailroad brought white buffalo hunters westHow did reservation life impact these tribes?Indian wars following Civil War= aggressive and brutal on both sides : 150-200 Arapaho/Cheyenne killed by US armyTreaty of Fort Laramie 1868: guaranteed the Black Hills to the Sioux tribeCorruption prevalent in the Bureau of Indian AffairsThe Battle of Little Bighorn: 250 US army vs. 2,000 Native Americans : religious revival (stop white expansion, return of the buffalo)= fear by white AmericansIncreased troops, disarming Sioux and chasing some in hidingMassacre at Wounded Knee 1890: Assimilation = Native Americans forced to live off of the governmentA Century of Dishonor, by Helen Hunt Jackson (reformer perspective)- Dawes Allotment Act (Severalty Act) 1887: Farming; private property= Americanization - Carlisle Indian School ................
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