HIST 1351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Plains, Joseph Mccoy, Dawes Act
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A diverse place in the environment and people: about 25,000 native americans lived in the. United states: about 2/3rd of those people lived west of the mississippi. Challenges to native american life: white settlement and the gold rush. It was a disadvantage to come in with guns blazing because they were outnumbered and knew nothing about the land that they were entering: destruction of common lands and bison, railroads. Buffalo hunting from train cars because buffalo skin was in high demand. Indian wars on the great plains: sand creek massacre, 1864, fetter(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s defeat, (cid:1005)866, rethinking indian policy: reservations. Restri(cid:272)t nati(cid:448)e a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s to (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) areas (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g reser(cid:448)atio(cid:374)s. here they (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t hu(cid:374)t (cid:271)uffalo si(cid:374)(cid:272)e they (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t allowed to leave their reservation. This forced the native americans to become farmers. The reservations begin to shrink in size as more white settlers moved: battle of little big horn, 1876.
