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 _____________.

violencereservations

Ways of Life

Plains Indians (Sioux, Blackfeet, Crow, Cheyenne, Comanche)

– Excellent horsemen and ___________________– Followed ________________ across the Great

Plains– Believed that nature is ________________.

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 _______________.

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 ____________________.

Sitting Bull

Massacre at Wounded Knee

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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