Happy Monday!!
September 28th, 2015
TO DO
Grab a glue stick & 2 different color pencils
2. Grab Map of US AND GLUE IT INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK
3. Response to the following question:
1.
When you hear the term Native
Americans what imagine do you see?
What comes to mind first? Describe or
draw the first things that comes to mind.
Why do you think it is harmful
for a group of people to be
depicted (seen) as only
living/existing in the past?
Happy Monday!!
September 28th, 2015
TO DO
Grab a glue stick & 2 different color
pencils
2. Grab Map of US AND GLUE IT INTO
YOUR NOTEBOOK
1.
Learning Target:
I will learn background
context on push and pull
factors of Native American in
US history.
TO DO
In 2 minutes label first 13 states on
the US map as you can
(please do this in pencil)
13
Colonies
Happy Tuesday!!
September 29th, 2015
TO DO
Take out your notebook
We will finish our lecture notes
PLEASE SIT CLOSER TO THE FRONT IF YOU
CAN’T SEE WELL
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The settlers in North America:
◦ Didn’t think of conquering Native
Americans
◦ Just wanted to trade with them.
◦ When N.A. resisted settlement
trouble began
1763 British Policy
◦ Tribes = independent nation
status
◦ Land west of the Appalachian
Mts. were N.A
◦ royal gov’t must approve all
land purchases
1778: Treaty with the Delawares (Lenape Indians)
1st treaty between the
US gov’t & any N.A.
 Americans allowed to
go through Lenape
territory
 Lenapes will help US
against Britain
 Recognized the Lenape
as independent nation
& guaranteed territorial
rights
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1778: Treaty with the Delawares (Lenape Indians)
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Chief White Eyes hoped to
become14th state
Ineffective treaty
White Eyes expressed
grievances  mysteriously died
Lenapes switch side to help
the British fight US
1787: Northwest Territory Ordinance
 Open the Midwest for (White)
settlement
 Declared US gov’t responsible for N.A
property & liberty
1824: Bureau of Indian Affairs
created under the authority of
Secretary of War
1830: Indian Removal Bill
 Signed by pres. Andrew Jackson
 Forced 45,000 N.A. living east of
Mississippi River to move west
1830 – 1850: Trail of Tears
Series of forced relocation of N.A further west
 Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, Creek, Seminole, and
Cherokee people
 Many suffered from exposure,
disease & starvation enroute
 Many died before reaching
destination
 2,000-6,000 of 15,543
Cherokee died on the way
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1832 Supreme Court redefined N.A tribes as “domestic
dependent nations”
 Nations received little respect
1851: N.A. Appropriation Act
 Authorized creation of N.A. reservation
in modern day Oklahoma
 Solution to White settlers invading into
N.A. territories & natural resources
The Sioux Wars
1862: Dakota War (The
Dakota Sioux Uprising)
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Conflict between Dakota
people & settlers in
Minnesota
Sioux agreed to live on
reservation for money 
which they never got
1863 - 1865: The Colorado War
Facing starvation,
 Settlers enter Native land for gold
launched a rebellion
& silver  increase tension
killing settlers
 1864: Sand Creek Massacre
1865: The Sioux War of 1865
The Sioux People
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Lived in (modern) Minnesota,
Wisconsin, North & South Dakota, parts
of Nebraska, Illinois, Montana
Fierce warriors – won the Plains as their
hunting grounds from other native
groups
Sioux means: “little snake”
◦ a collective name for N.A. people
that share a similar language
Nomadic people  didn’t live in one
place
Great Sioux Nation
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Term applied to political structure of
the Sioux by Europeans & EuroAmericans
Očhéthi Šakówiŋ – Seven Fire Council
 Lakota
 Northern Lakota (Húŋkpapȟa, Sihásapa)
 Central Lakota (Mnikȟówožu, Itázipčho,
Oóhenuŋpa)
 Southern Lakota (Oglála, Sičháŋǧu)
 West Dakota
 Yankton (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ)
 Yanktonai (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna)
 Eastern Dakota
 Santee (Isáŋyathi: Bdewákhathuŋwaŋ,
Waȟpékhute)
 Sisseton (Sisíthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ)
1860 – 1978: Boarding Schools
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Est. to assimilate N.A children
into the “American way of life”
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“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
Forced to adopt English
names & Christianity
 Beat for
practicing/speaking native
culture/language
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1866: Red Cloud’s War
 Fierce Lakota resistance
towards US military presences
in their territory
 1868 US army abandons its post
there
1867: Indian Peace
Commission
 Relocate various tribes
from ancestral homes to
specific plot of land 
reservations
 Federal agents run
reservations
1871: Appropriation bill rider
 Many tribes did not listen to  No longer recognized N.A
this…because would you?
tribes as “domestic
dependent nations”
 Tribes no longer
independent nations, no
negotiations allowed
The Last Native American Wars
1876: The Great Sioux War
Gold is discovered on the Lakota Sioux Reservation
 White settlers ignore treaty & trespass into Res. to mine gold
 Lakota leaves Res. to hunt near Bighorn Mountains (southeastern
Montana)
 Gov’t sent Gen. Custer to fight the Lakota & their allies (the
Cheyenne)
 Battle of Little Bighorn – biggest battle
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The Last Native American Wars
1890 – 1891: Ghost Dance War
Unresolved issues from
Great Sioux War
 Ghost Dance movement
as a means of resistance
 Wounded Knee Massacre
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◦ Unclear why it starts
◦ US army fired
indiscriminately at Lakota &
their own soldiers
◦ 300 Lakota men, women and
children killed
1887: Dawes Act
 Attempts to assimilate N.A
 Divided up tribal land and
portioned it out to individual
tribal members to farm
 Was big failure
1893: court ruling to keep native
children in boarding school
1924: Citizenship Act
 all N.A  US citizens
1934: Indian Reorganization
Act
 Reverse the Dawes Act
 Restored some reservation
lands
 Gave N.A. control over their
land
 Permitted to elect own gov’t
1978: Indian Child Welfare Act
 N.A children no longer
forced to attend boarding
schools
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A Friend of the Indians
by Joseph Bruchac
A man who was known
as a friend of the Indians
spoke to Red Jacket one day
about the good treatment
the Senecas enjoyed
from their white neighbors.
Red Jacket walked with him
besides the river, then suggested
they should sit together
on a log next to the stream.
They both sat down.
Then Red Jacket slid closer
to the man and said, “Move Over.”
The man moved over, but when
he did
Red Jacket again slid closer.
“Move Over,” he said.
Three times this happened
until the man had reached
the end of the log near the water
then, once more, he was told,
“Move Over.”
“But if I move further
I shall fall in the water,”
the man pleaded,
Teetering on the edge.
Red Jacket replied,
“And even so you whites
tell us to move on when
no place is left to go.”