Did the US change Native American life/culture for the worse?
Wars: Which showed Relations
Tecumseh's Confederation
1805-1813
Shawnee Leader (Tecumseh) and brother prophet united north-west tribes - one his way to try and get 5 civilised tribes. Both sides attacked each others camps. Tecumseh's failed and fled to canada and died fighting with English and French
To defend ancestral lands
Only attempt to unite Native tribes
War of 1812
President Jackson defeated creeks - forced to give away 2/3 of land
Treaty of fort Jackson
Britain vacated forts so NA lost english support
Seminole Wars
Took Seminole out of Florida
Cheyenne uprising/Little crow war/Red cloud war
Great Sioux War
Little Bighorn
Sioux defeated Custer and the 7th Cavalry
7000 sioux shows how annoyed they were
Led to Wounded knee
Sioux would be forced to sell black hills and return to reservations
Angered US who used more resources against them
Wounded Knee
US killed 300-400 sioux men woman and children
End of a Nation
Treaties/Reservations
Fort Laramie
This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
There would be a number of treaties during this time many would be broken by the USA
The Reservation policy
Give tribes a small piece if land to have instead of moving with the bison as they used to
Took them away from open prairie spaces
American Actions pre 1860
Actions of the US Government after 1860
Early Westward Expansion: meant America would start wanting NA lands
Wars weakened Native Americans
Trail of Tears
President Jackson forced the 5 civilised tribes to go west as they wanted their land
This resulted in 2000-4000 deaths as the NA were not given enough Government supplies
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Gold Rush
Meant that thousands of people went west in a very short space of time
Civil War
Accelerated up westward expansion
Destruction of the Buffaloo
A key part of NA lives as some tribes moved with the buffaloo and depended on every part of it
Meant NA needed to survive on crops they grew (the land wasn't great to farm) or government supplies of food
Attitudes of Whites settlers:
Kill the Indian, save the man
Assimalation
Boarding Schools
Young NA children were taken and put into western boarding school to americanise them
Would slowly destroy NA culture
Would anger NA
The Dawes Act
Divided land so that Each NA male got 160 acres of reservation land
ended community life
power of chief gone
NA became US citizens (they didn't want to be)
Left over land would be sold to white settlers so NA lost reservation land