HIST206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Indian Boarding Schools, Wounded Knee Massacre, Endangerment

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: History
• Course: HIST206
• Professor: Kreitzer

Document Summary

8 new states join the union --> but area was inhabited by native american tribes. Forced to change lifestyle and culture due to development of trans-mississippi west. Early encounters: tribes had different languages, customs, beliefs. Andrew jackson, lithograph 1835: using ideas about race to justify their control and domination of other groups of people --> time of. Cherokee nation, 1830s: 1830s: violence, northwest georgia, not completed separated from american culture (they could read, write, speak english, mostly farmers, living very similarly to farmers, some even owned slaves --> traditional plantation agriculture. Increased white settlers coming into contact with tribal lands owned by cherokees: white settlers wanted land for their farms, also rumors of gold and precious metals in cherokee land (incentive for gold) Federal law that authorized the removal of eastern tribes: relocated to areas west of the mississippi river, thought to be unsuitable for farming, go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t did(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k this la(cid:374)d (cid:449)as profita(cid:271)le.