Land
The Indian Removal Act and when was it passed?
What is to Move Indians east of the Mississippi to designated Indian territory on the west side of the river, 1830
The number of boarding schools there were there in total by the 1960s?
What is around 500
The fund act of 1819 and what was its goal?
What is to pay for anything that would help "civilize" the Indigenous people?
The Act passed in 1887, aimed to break up tribal lands into individual plots of land.
What is The Dawes Act
The model school for boarding schools used for the assimilation of native Americans, and when it was founded
What is the Carlisle School, 1879
This code criminalized ceremonies and native american dances?
What is Indian religious crime code (1883)
The reason for the Dawes Act implementation and its aim?
What is to assimilating natives away from communal land-holding practices and into farms?
Issues that occurred within the boarding schools with the aim of assimilating? Name two.
What is harsh punishment, abuse, separation from families, poor living conditions, erasing of past traditions (assimilation)
The government tried to change these within Indigenous culture.
What is Language, religion, cultural practices, land use, and education, with the intent to "civilize" the indigenous
The choices given to native Americans forced them into society
What is reservations or working labor jobs.
The quote/memo all the boarding schools were built off of?
What is "Kill the Indian, save the man."
The act passed that worked to limit native American governmental power, and when?
What is the Curtis Act, 1898