Transcript of The “Wild” West Indians Methods of Displacement 1. Reservations.
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Methods of Displacement
• 1. Reservations
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
• To assimilate Native Americans
• Break up tribes and reservations
• Give land directly to Native American individuals and families
• Indians accepting gave up tribal ways to achieve land deed and U.S. citizenship (after 25 years).
• Effect: reduced size of Indian land and population; made Indians poor.
Present-day Indian reservations
Before
Carlisle Indian School, PA.
2. Forced Assimilation through “education”
After
3. Treaties
4. Settlement
Oklahoma, 1889
5. Destruction of economy: 5. Destruction of economy: BuffaloBuffalo
Charles Russell
6. Armed Conflict6. Armed Conflict
The Indian Wars: Three Major EventsThe Indian Wars: Three Major Events
1. Battle of the Little BighornJune 25, 1876
Ft. Laramie Treaty
General George Armstrong Custer
Custer leading Black Hills expedition, 1874Custer leading Black Hills expedition, 1874
Sitting Bull
Tatanka Yotanka
Crazy Horse
Death of Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull went on to perform with Buffalo Bill
Custer became an American Legend
2. Flight of the Nez Perce
Chief Joseph
Nelson A. Miles
Oliver O. HowardNelson A. Miles
My people are tired… From where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever.
3. Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890
Wovoka
Ghost Dance
Big Foot and his people before the “battle”
Buffalo Bill Capt. BaldwinNelson Miles
1973AAmerican IIndian MMovement
Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux, on the “Wild West”
• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.