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Life on an Indian Reservation - Coggle Diagram
Life on an Indian Reservation
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
It was intended to keep Native Americans off of land that European Americans wanted.
These were almost always created on remote lands, inferior for hunting and farming purposes.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 allowed the US government to relocate American Indian tribes to areas known as reservations.
Over 5000 Cherokee are estimated to have died as a result of the IRA (Trail of Tears)
The Dawes Act
It turned Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans
This allowed the government to break up families and break up their land.
An explicit goal of the Dawes Act was to create divisions among Native Americans and eliminate the social cohesion of tribes
The Spokane Indians
With their native lands exploited and food sources threatened, the Spokane, like many other tribes, found their traditional way of life imperiled.
In 1877, the Spokane were forced to move to reservations and began their long legal battle with the US government to get compensation for their reduced livelihood in the fishing industry.
The Spokane Indians of Washington State are an ancient tribe that traditionally depended upon hunting, gathering and fishing salmon from the Spokane River.
The Gold Rush of 1849 and the white migration West brought American Indians and whites into violent conflict.
Reservation Locations
they started forcing the indigenous people farther and farther West.
It was intended to keep Native Americans off of land that European Americans wanted
It's estimated that no more than 25% of American Indians live on reservations
Eastern Tribes were forced to relocate West of the Mississippi River; Western tribes were made to give up large areas of their traditional lands, disrupting long-established patterns and creating poverty.