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Indians And the American Plain
US History Ch 11. Sec 2
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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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Treatment of Native Americans
Three steps to treatment of Indians in US history1) Reservations2) Extermination3) Assimilation
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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
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Last Native American Wars
• 1870s many Native Americans leave in disgust• Battle of Little Bighorn– Gold Prospectors overrun Lakota on reservation– Lokata Leave to hunt else where– George Custer sent to force them back
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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
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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
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End of the Indian Issue
• 1924 congress Passes Citizenship Act• 1934 FDR ends the policies of assimilation
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Homework
• CH 11 EOC Review 1-19• Vocabulary:
• annuities• Indian Peace Commission • George A. Custer• Assimilate• Allotments• Dawes Act