ANTH 316gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Backpage, Homestead Acts, Peyote
Document Summary
American indian genocide museum: has a lot of information to attest to the fact that what happened to the native americans was actually genocide. 1877, 11 years later, us moved in militarily to seize the black. Cut off rations to sioux until they gave it back. Was centered around the idea of black hills. Us poured a lot of money into this war for things such as machine guns and taking out buffalo. Between native american modoc people and us army in northeastern. When the modoc were defeated, the government broke up their tribes. At this point, you can see that the approach to native americans were really changing. American kept seeing waves of immigrants coming over from europe. Many were poor and wanting farmland, they were pushing on the border looking for free farmland. Anyone who wanted to build a cabin and start a farm could for free.
