Vocabulary
Assimilation
What is when one group of people adopt the culture, lifestyle, and beliefs of another group of people
What were the issues that arose while treaties were being made?
Language barriers, cultural differences, and shifting terms
How did settlers view the land in a way that was completely different from Native Americans?
Settlers viewed the land as something that could be owned and worked for profit as opposed to Natives who believed that the land was collective
What was the transportation hub for the mining industry in Montana?
Fort Benton
This mountain range is the home of the Showdown ski hill
Little Belts
Monopoly
What is when one person or business holds a significant majority of production in a certain industry
How did a misunderstanding of Native political structure create troubles with treaties being effective?
Assumptions that Native chiefs spoke for everyone in their tribe made it so the government thought that by getting the chief to agree the entire tribe would fall in line
Why did the government want to make treaties with Native Americans?
Space for settlers to claim, access to natural resources, and a path for a transcontinental railroad
Describe an average placer miner
The Blackfeet have historically had their backs to this mountain range
Lewis Range/Rockies
Total War
Attacking/destroying every aspect of your enemy's livelihood in order to force them to surrender
What two things did the federal government acknowledge about tribes during the Treaty Era?
The government recognized Natives as the rightful owners of the land and allowed the Indians to govern their territory as they pleased
What allowed many industries, including ranching, to get their start in Montana
The explosion of population due to mining
Who were the people that "mined the miners"?
Businesses that cropped up around the mining towns like restaurants, laundry mats, barbershops, etc. These businesses were often run by Chinese immigrants
The Salish were hesitant to leave the valley of this mountain range as it was their ancestral home
The Bitterroot Valley/Mountains
Sovereignty
When a group of people owns a territory and is able to make their own decisions on behalf of that territory.
What is meant by Native American's trying to develop financial independence?
Adopting American practices like farming in order to acquire economic (and therefore political) security
How did quartz mining differ from placer mining?
Placer mining was a small scale operation that could be done by an individual mining around a river. Quartz mining required heavy machinery that took large chunks of rock off of mountainsides and then more machinery to break down the quartz and isolate the valuable mineral
Name two of the three major gold strikes that brought prospectors to Montana
Grasshopper Creek, Alder Gulch, Last Chance Gulch
Disputes over the use of this range for gold mining led to a war between the Sioux and the federal government
The Black Hills
A poke
What did the Fort Laramie Treaty do?
Name three of the four overland routes that were popularized during the mining boom.
Northern Overland, Bozeman, Corinne, Mullan
What was the name of the neighborhood in Missoula where the minority populations lived?
The Badlands
If you drove south from the football game in Absarokee this weekend you would end up in these mountains
Beartooth