Boarding Schools
How was Assimilation considered a positive step forward.
Euro-Americans believed it would help Indians adjust to change.
What was the main problem with the assimilation policies.
Lack of understanding of their cultures.
Law that broke up reservations into individually owned pieces of land.
Dawes Act
Indian tribes have ___________ within their reservations.
Sovereignty
Who said "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
General Pratt
What was the main purpose of the Indian Boarding Schools?
Promote assimilation by teaching Indian children Euro-American values.
What was one of three things did the Indian agents controlled life on the reservations.
Withholding food and supplies, Outlawing religious ceremonies, and removing traditional leadership.
What was the name of the ruling that upheld Indian water rights
Winters decision
After reservation land was divided, it was held in ______ for 25 years.
A trust
Who was the Crow chief who favored education?
Plenty Coups
What is a legacy of the boarding school era?
Tribal members who used their new skills to help their tribes.
Why were Indians vulnerable to diseases?
Because of not having their immunity built up, and they had to adapt to a sudden change in lifestyle.
Why did the Blackfeet tribe sell more of their land.
They were starving and needed money.
Treaties required that Indians be paid ______ for land.
Annuities
who stepped up and read an itemized list of the payments the government had promised and failed to make?
Carl Leider
What is a major legacy of the early reservation years?
Non-Indian ownership of land on reservation.
What struggles did Indians have with working on a farm.
They often had to use unfamiliar and inadequate equipment, Non-Indians used their land for cattle grazing, Non-Indians diverted their water for their own use.
Due to annuities being reduced and supplies showing up late it caused for Indian tribes to sell more land what was time time called?
Starvation Winter
Married women did not originally receive ________ under the Dawes Act.
Allotments
Who was the Blackfeet leader who supported the rights of full blood tribal members?
Robert Hamilton
What was the name of the report that talked about all of the problems of Boarding Schools.
Why did allotments fail?
It did not provide enough land for grazing or farming.
What was the goals of the Dawes Act?
Discourage tribal unity, Promote small farms, and provide more land for Euro-Americans.
Many Euro-Americans thought the Dawes Act would encourage _________.
Assimilation
Double Jeopardy (Double the Points!) What is the National animal of Sweden?
Moose