ANTH 316gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Great Plains, Dawes Act
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Interesting situation in oklahoma that you don"t see anywhere else because so many native americans were forced to go to oklahoma. Became clear later that oklahoma was somewhat like a prison to move. Native americans to move them out of the way for settles. Today oklahoma still has one of the highest percentage of native. 1912 - oklahoma land rush, government wanted to dismantle the native. Divide up indian tribal land into allotments for individual native. Great plains warrior nomads, lived mostly off of raiding. Wanted people to think he was a jackson prot g . Married to a cherokee woman which may have gave him more sympathy to the cherokee position, became legally adopted into cherokee tribe because of the marriage. Took charge of anglo movement into texas, became face and leader. Went in a very short time period from being welcoming to native. Americans to being the polar opposite after sam houston no longer was in charge.
