Lecture Notes 4.5 (pt. 2) Broken Promises

1. Lecture Notes 4.5 (pt. 2)Broken Promises Main Idea: As settlers moved west, the U.S. government used __________ to push Native Americans onto smaller and smaller _____________. violence reservations

2. Ways of Life Plains Indians (Sioux, Blackfeet, Crow, Cheyenne, Comanche) • Excellent horsemen and ___________________ • Followed ________________ across the Great Plains • Believed that nature is ________________.

3. Pushed onto reservations • American settlers believe that nature is a resource that can be ___________ to produce _________________. • U.S. government forces Native Americans onto • Reservations: land “reserved” for ______________________. • Buffalo: white settlers killed them for their hides and for sport until nearly _______________.

5. War • Sioux begin to _____________________, and the U.S. government __________________ to put down the rebellion. • Sand Creek: U.S. troops __________________ unarmed men, women, and children • Battle of Little Big Horn: 2,000 Sioux Indians led by ________________ meet Col. ________________________ 250 men. • Custer and all of his men are killed. • Wounded Knee: • Dec. 28, 1890: Army rounds up 350 ___________ people • A ________ is fired. The U.S. Army _____________________ Sioux men, women, and children. • It is the end of the ____________________.

6. Massacre at Wounded Knee Sitting Bull

7. Forced Assimilation • Dawes Severalty Act: breaks up ________________, assigns land to _______________ Native American families. • “Indian Schools:” Native American children taken to ___________________ where they were forced to dress and speak like ___________. Navajo man Tom Torlino before and after being attending an “Indian school”

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