You all will live here. By the Concentration Policy, the federal government has divided the regions to relocate you to these reservations!
How will we live like this? The American settlers get all the fertile land, while you separate and throw us in these desolate, depleted areas.
Eva Le
Liuku: 2
Eva Le
1867
After many bloody conflicts, Congress has decided on the Indian Peace Commission to replace the former policy and move you Plains Indians into two reservations. Sounds great, right?
It only took you 16 years and this plan mainly benefits the Americans secure railraod routes and facilitate westward Anglo-expansion.
Liuku: 3
Eva Le
1870s-1880s
No! This railroad company hired Buffalo Bill Cody and they are decimating our buffalo resources. Others hunt them for hides, food,and to hurt our way of life.
Liuku: 4
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Between the 1850s to 1890s, the Indian Wars erupted as the U.S. Army pushed westward onto Native American land. Native Americans resisted removal after repeated treaty violations and legal manipulation. Leaders like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull united the Plains tribes and defeated George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Unfortunately, U.S. military retaliation followed, and in 1877, Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce were forced to surrender. The Chiricahua Apaches had been the last to surrender, becoming the last group to maintain organized Native resistance by the 1880s.
Between the 1850s to 1890s, the Indian Wars erupted as the U.S. Army pushed westward onto Native American land. Native Americans resisted removal after repeated treaty violations and legal manipula
Eva Le
Liuku: 5
1889
As Sioux, this Ghost Dance is our mass spiritual awakening started by Paiute prophet Wovoka that will cause the retreat of the white settlers and the restoration of our great buffalo herds!
Eva Le
Liuku: 6
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1890
Eva Le
U.S. troops surrounded Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek after fears over the Ghost Dance. In an attempt to disarm them, a massacre began, killing over 250 Native Americans, marking the end of large-scale Native American armed resistance.
Liuku: 7
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The Dawes Act of 1887 aimed to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up tribal land into individual farm plots. Native Americans were encouraged to become farmers and abandon their traditional culture. Much tribal land was lost to white settlers, further damaging Native communities.
Eva Le
Yli 40 miljoonaa luotua kuvakäsikirjoitusta
Ei Latauksia, ei Luottokorttia ja ei Vaadi Kirjautumista Kokeilemiseen!