Indians And the American Plain

Indians And the American Plain

US History Ch 11. Sec 2

The Wheat Belt

• New Farming Techniques lead to dust storms during dry seasons

• Inexpensive land and new technology• Bonanza farms: large farms that yielded large

profits• Oklahoma Land Rush April 22, 1889 finishes

settling the West

Treatment of Native Americans

Three steps to treatment of Indians in US history1) Reservations2) Extermination3) Assimilation

Life on Reservations

• Sioux agree to live on reservation in return for annuities (annual government payments

• Annuities don’t come, Sioux uprising• Indian Peace Commission 1867 Created two

large Reservations

Last Native American Wars

• 1870s many Native Americans leave in disgust• Battle of Little Bighorn– Gold Prospectors overrun Lakota on reservation– Lokata Leave to hunt else where– George Custer sent to force them back

Wounded Knee

• Lakota ordered to stop the ghost dance, but refuse

• Soldiers sent to arrest Chief Sitting Bull• Gun Fire exchanged at wounded knee creek– 25 US soldiers killed– 200 Lakota men women and children killed

The Dawes Act

• A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt• Assimilation is a popular new idea• Divided reservations up into allotments for

individual Indians.• Citizenship after living on allotment for 25

years.• Carsile Native American School• Is a Dismal Failure

End of the Indian Issue

• 1924 congress Passes Citizenship Act• 1934 FDR ends the policies of assimilation

Homework

• CH 11 EOC Review 1-19• Vocabulary:

• annuities• Indian Peace Commission • George A. Custer• Assimilate• Allotments• Dawes Act