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What is an Indian reservation?
An Indian reservation is a land base that a tribe reserved for itself when it relinquished its other land areas to the US through treaties.
When was the Indian citizenship act?
1924
Why was the Indian Removal Act passed?
Because the Indian tribes living in the area were a major obstacle to westward expansion, white settlers petitioned the federal government to remove the tribes.
What was life like in an Indian boarding school?
At boarding schools, Indian children were separated from their families and cultural ways for long periods, sometimes four or more years. The children were forced to cut their hair and give up their traditional clothing. They had to give up their meaningful Native names and take English ones.
When were the Osage Murders?
In 1910s-1930s
What was the trail of tears?
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
How long were the Indian Boarding Schools used?
Between 1869 and the 1960s
How did Native American societies change over time?
What were the concerns about the Ghost Dance?
The Lakotas' white neighbors and reservation officials viewed the movement as a threat to U.S. Indian policy and believed the Ghost Dance ceremonies and ghost shirts indicated that the Lakotas intended to start a war.
What happened as a result of the Dawes Act?
As a result of the Dawes Act, tribal lands were parceled out into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual plots of land were allowed to become US citizens. The remainder of the land was then sold off to white settlers.
What is assimilation?
Assimilation is the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
When was the Indian Removal Act?
The Indian Removal Act was in 1830.
What were the Code Talkers?
A code talker is the name given to Native Americans who used their tribal language to send secret communications on the battlefield.
What happened in the Osage Murders? when were they?
The Osage Indian murders were a series of murders of Osage Native Americans in Osage County.
Who benefited from the Indian Removal Act?
The Removal Act would benefit white settlement and allow the country's citizens to inhabit up and down the eastern coast. This included certain southern states such as Georgia and Florida, which was recently acquired from the Spanish.
What did the Dawes Act do?
The Dawes Act authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
How long did the trail of tears last?
About 2 years, from 1837 to 1839.
Why was the dawes act passed?
The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture, which meant dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What was the ghost dance?
The ghost dance was a group dance of a late 19th century American Indian messianic cult believed to promote the return of the dead and the restoration of traditional ways of life.
How much land did Native Americans lose under the Dawes Act?
Native Americans lost approx. 90 million acres of land under the Dawes Act
What was the Homestead act?
The Homestead Act was a law that let U.S. citizens, or people wanting to become citizens, file for 160 acres of free land in the west.
When was Sitting Bull arrested?
December 15, 1890
How did American Culture and Native American Culture differ?
One of the major differences that can be seen between American and Native American culture is in family relations. While the Native American are very much family oriented, the Americans are individual oriented. In Native American, the family values are given more prominence than the individual values.
What happened in the wounded knee massacre?
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
Who was John Collier?
He was an aggressive advocate for Native American tribal and indigenous rights Head of Bureau Indian Affairs (BIA) 1933-1945