1865-1880: Native Americans
positive negative
southwest tribes had slightly better experiences as the location manifest destiny
of their reservations coincided with some of their traditional idea that white americans had been chosen by god to populate
lands north america
1870’s- tribal police provided work for indians
religion religion
some felt that god seemed more powerful than the some wanted nothing to do with the religious groups,
spirits of their native religious systems acceptance of the new religion came slowly
native americans were denied religious freedom
reservation schools reservation schools
the vocational training for boys and domestic skills seen as places where new generations of indians would learn to
for girls gave na’s better opportunity to find better shred their tribal ways
jobs; for example some working in the indian agency harshly disciplined for breaking the rules including speaking
offices their tribal language
boarding schools- students would be kept from their traditional
rites of adulthood and tribal initiation
carlisle indian industrial school- pratt (who ran the school)
believed the solution to the indian problem was to kill the indian
and save the man
students would return to the reservation, unable to speak their
language or pretending to be unable
employment opportunities were limited after education
sioux wars 1866 sioux wars 1866
there were indian attacks on the trail surveyors, led tension arose over the government’s decision to start the
by red cloud bozeman trail through big horn, which was the best hunting
fetterman- chased indians but ended up surrounded ground for the sioux
by sioux, cheyenne and araphos fort phil kearney- white soldiers were equipped with new rifles
that didn’t need to be reloaded after each shot, red cloud lost
many of his warriors and called off the attack
medicine lodge creek treaty 1867
kiowas and comanches were bribed and threatened until they
agreed to a reservation of 3 mil acres between the red and
washita rivers
cheyennes and araphos accepted a sandy area
fort laramie treaty 1868 fort laramie treaty 1868
government agreed to stop work on the bozeman red cloud agreed to take the sioux to a permanent reservation in
trail, and abandon 3 forts dakota
sioux would be allowed to use their old hunting would only be allowed to use their old hunting grounds if
grounds in big horn government didn’t want them
reservations- meant that indians couldn’t live their old nomadic way of
life, unable to settle to farming
the battle of the river washita 1868
custer- dashed after the indians until they reached the indian
camp (which was black kettle’s with several hundred
cheyennes), at dawn they took the indians by surprise and
attacked them
103 indians died
peace policy 1969
grant- aimed to place indians on reservations and to use the
christian church to help in the organisation and running of
reservations
indian appropriations bill 1871
altered the relationship between the us government and the
tribes, stated that no indian nation or tribe shall be
acknowledged as an independent nation
the red river war 1874 the red river war 1874
positive negative
southwest tribes had slightly better experiences as the location manifest destiny
of their reservations coincided with some of their traditional idea that white americans had been chosen by god to populate
lands north america
1870’s- tribal police provided work for indians
religion religion
some felt that god seemed more powerful than the some wanted nothing to do with the religious groups,
spirits of their native religious systems acceptance of the new religion came slowly
native americans were denied religious freedom
reservation schools reservation schools
the vocational training for boys and domestic skills seen as places where new generations of indians would learn to
for girls gave na’s better opportunity to find better shred their tribal ways
jobs; for example some working in the indian agency harshly disciplined for breaking the rules including speaking
offices their tribal language
boarding schools- students would be kept from their traditional
rites of adulthood and tribal initiation
carlisle indian industrial school- pratt (who ran the school)
believed the solution to the indian problem was to kill the indian
and save the man
students would return to the reservation, unable to speak their
language or pretending to be unable
employment opportunities were limited after education
sioux wars 1866 sioux wars 1866
there were indian attacks on the trail surveyors, led tension arose over the government’s decision to start the
by red cloud bozeman trail through big horn, which was the best hunting
fetterman- chased indians but ended up surrounded ground for the sioux
by sioux, cheyenne and araphos fort phil kearney- white soldiers were equipped with new rifles
that didn’t need to be reloaded after each shot, red cloud lost
many of his warriors and called off the attack
medicine lodge creek treaty 1867
kiowas and comanches were bribed and threatened until they
agreed to a reservation of 3 mil acres between the red and
washita rivers
cheyennes and araphos accepted a sandy area
fort laramie treaty 1868 fort laramie treaty 1868
government agreed to stop work on the bozeman red cloud agreed to take the sioux to a permanent reservation in
trail, and abandon 3 forts dakota
sioux would be allowed to use their old hunting would only be allowed to use their old hunting grounds if
grounds in big horn government didn’t want them
reservations- meant that indians couldn’t live their old nomadic way of
life, unable to settle to farming
the battle of the river washita 1868
custer- dashed after the indians until they reached the indian
camp (which was black kettle’s with several hundred
cheyennes), at dawn they took the indians by surprise and
attacked them
103 indians died
peace policy 1969
grant- aimed to place indians on reservations and to use the
christian church to help in the organisation and running of
reservations
indian appropriations bill 1871
altered the relationship between the us government and the
tribes, stated that no indian nation or tribe shall be
acknowledged as an independent nation
the red river war 1874 the red river war 1874
