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Government Actions - Coggle Diagram
Government Actions
Government Policy
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Destruction of buffalo - destroyed native American way of life. They did this by encouraging settlers to shoot the buffalo which made the natives starve
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Conflict over land
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Humanitarians (wanted to convert the natives into christians) vs the exetromaters (wanted to kill the natives) battled to take control of the land
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Reservations
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They were run by Indian agents appointed by the government which weakened the influence of the chiefs and the structure of the tribe
Tried to get rid of their culture by taking away polygamy, religious practices, their names, breaking up their families, their language and their appearance
Clash of Cultures
Perceived as uncivilised - Nomadic, polygamy, tipis
Perceived as savages - Counting Coup, Scalping, Sundance
The natives were disgusted by how the whites had treated the land. Blac hills sacred but the whites wanted it for gold
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