Ghost Dance
Was thought that it would reunite the spirits of the dead with those of the living.
What is the Ghost dance?
The Indian wars were a protracted series of conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers over land and natural resources in the West.
What was the Indian wars?
Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
The Gold rush was categorized by violent clashes among settlers, miners, and Native Americans over the access to the land and its natural resources.
What is the Gold rush?
When did the Homestead Act occur?
The Homestead Act occured in 1862
A place the Native American God Showed to Wovoka.
What is a land of love and peace?
What was the Act that established Indian reservations in the territory that would become the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas?
What is the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851?
Kept Native Americans off of lands that European-Americans wished to settle.
What is the reservation system?
What year was the discovery of the gold in California to set off the Gold Rush.
1848
What was a Homestead Act?
A Homestead act was a plot of land.
A shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe that claimed God had the appearance of a Native American.
Who is Wovoka?
In this battle Colonel George Custer and his troops arrived a day earlier than the other troops and were all killed by crazy horse and his men.
What is the battle of the little big horn?
Amended the Dawes Act to apply to the Five Civilized Tribes as well.
What is the Curtis Act 1898?
When the Gold rush became known what happened?
How many acres was that land?
The land was 160 acres.
This tribe Originated the Ghost Dance.
What is the Paiute tribe.
The discovery of gold in the Black Hills region of South Dakota brought prospective miners into the area and onto the hunting grounds of the Sioux War.
What is the Sioux War?
The white Americans believed that something was being absorbed into mainstream white American Society.
What is assimilation?
Which group led to the establishment of taxes and laws that explicitly targeted immigrants, particularly Chinese immigrants.
The Nativist.
Why was homestead continous?
Because Northerners and Republicans wanted to free up large plots of land to settlement.
The white man would be forever banished from the land, and that the buffalo, which had been hunted to near-extinction by white settlers, would return and bring with it a lasting revival of the Native American way of life.
What was Wovoka's Prophecy
This battle ended the ghost dance war and sealed the indians' demise.
What is the Wounded Knee?
During the Great Depression, the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported a act which authorized a “New Deal” for Native American Indians, allowing them to organize and form their own tribal governments, and ending the land allotments created by Dawes Act.
What is the US Indian Reorganization Act?
Which group of migrants claimed land around the river, where they used pans to extract gold from silt deposits?
The Forty Niners
How many years did the federal government grant over a million and a half homestead?
72 years. 1862-1934