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Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans and the Role of Government

Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans and the Role of Government. Event Exploration. Your Task. Analyze the extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the period 1860–90 and evaluate the role of the federal government in those effects.

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Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans and the Role of Government

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  1. Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans and the Role of Government Event Exploration

  2. Your Task Analyze the extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the period 1860–90 and evaluate the role of the federal government in those effects. • Step 1: Online Native American conflict research • Step 2: Analyze primary source documents

  3. Step 1: In-depth exploration Choose one of the listed conflicts below to explore the relationship between Native Americans and the US government during Westward Expansion. • Massacre at Sand Creek • Battle of the Hundred Slain/Fetterman Massacre • Red River War For your chosen event, answer the following questions: • What caused the conflict? • Key people and/or groups involved • Casualties (deaths, captured, injured, etc) • Lasting impact on both groups involved (think perspective)

  4. Document A - Source: S.G. Colley, U.S. Indian Agent, Report, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, 1865. 1. What event prompted the soldiers attack? Do you think the author feels this was justified? Why or why not?

  5. Document B - Santana, Chief of the Kiowas, 1867. U.S. Bureau of Ethnography Annual Report, 17th, 1895–96 2. How has the government changed the landscape of the West according to Santana?

  6. Document C - “Promise of the High Plains,” ca. 1880s in The Railroaders 3. Compare this poster to what you learned about the Dawes Act. How did the government treat settlers and Natives differently in respect to land?

  7. Document D - John Wesley Powell, Report of Special Commissioners J.W. Powell and G. W. Ingalls on the Condition of the Ute Indians of Utah; the Paiutes of Utah. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874 4. Why does Powell feel it is important to rid the Natives of their “nomadic lifestyles”?

  8. Document E - Chief Luther Standing Bear, My People, the Sioux 5. What is Standing Bear’s opinion of “assimilation”? Support your response.

  9. Discuss • Be prepared to share your responses with the class and discuss the relationship between Native Americans and the US Government during Westward Expansion.

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