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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.

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Indians And the American Plain

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  1. Indians And the American Plain US History Ch 11. Sec 2

  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

  3. Treatment of Native Americans Three steps to treatment of Indians in US history • Reservations • Extermination • Assimilation

  4. 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

  5. Last Native American Wars • 1870s many Native Americans leave in disgust • Battle of Little Bighorn • Gold Prospectors overrun Lakota on reservation • LokataLeave to hunt else where • George Custer sent to force them back

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. End of the Indian Issue • 1924 congress Passes Citizenship Act • 1934 FDR ends the policies of assimilation

  9. Homework • CH 11 EOC Review 1-19 • Vocabulary: • annuities • Indian Peace Commission • George A. Custer • Assimilate • Allotments • Dawes Act

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