Vocabulary
land set aside for Native Americans
Reservation
To try and assimilate Native Americans into white culture the US Government sent Native American children to ______________________.
Boarding Schools
White settlers kept trespassing on Native American Reservations in WA after ___________ was discovered there.
Gold
To become a state you needed a population of at least __________________.
60,000
The 500 word language that most treaties with Native Americans in WA state used.
Chinook Jargon.
A formal agreement between two or more independent nations.
Treaty
Isaac Stevens
The tribe of Native Americans fled their reservation and were chased by the army into Montana.
The Nez Perce
The ___________ act was passed by the US Congress to help Washington, and other territories become states.
Enabling Act
According to the Point no Point treaty Native Americans were permitted to fish in their__________________.
Usual and accustomed ways
The right or privilege to vote.
Franchise or Suffrage
If Native Americans were willing to cut their tribal ties they could become a _____________________.
US Citizen
Chief Kamiakin was the leader of the __________ tribe.
Yakima
a guarantee of basic civil rights, the principles of the US Constitution and Declaration of independence upheld
The US Government built these 2 types of schools on the reservations to help teach the Native Americans job skills.
Agricultural and Industrial
The status of having power or authority; self-governing or independent.
Sovereign
True or False: Having all perspectives represented on an historical timeline is a complete picture of history.
What is True
After the Nez Perce tribe surrendered they were sent to live on a new Reservation in______________.
Oklahoma
Washington was the ____________ state to allow women the right to vote.
Fifth
Why did white settlers want Native Americans to sign treaties?
To have access to their land, to stop the fighting, and to assimilate them into white culture
The process by which a minority group adopts the culture and customs of the dominant cultural group.
Assimilation
The law that the US Government passed to divide the reservation land into individual allotments.
The Dawes Act
Displacement of Native Americans occurred as a result of finding this metal ore on reservations of the Yakama and the Nez Perce.
What is gold.
1889
Native American land and people fell under the jurisdiction of the __________ government.
Federal