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Recommendations for Indian Policy 1886
The Native Americans lead a strong resistance against their forced relocation evidenced in
   the Battle of the Greasy Grass, Red Cloud’s war, the Nez Perce trail, etc. Write a
   government policy arguing one of the following solutions for Native American-White
   relations. Mention specific ways in which it could be implemented. Present your
   policy.
1. State the purpose of the policy.
2. Give a reason for the policy.
3. Discuss the implementation of the policy.


POLICY OPTIONS
a. No regulation
b. Return to Homeland
c. Reservation System
d. Assimilation
e. Annihilation
Homestead Act - 1862




• Legal mandate for Manifest Destiny
• 160 acres for a small fee
Fort Laramie Treaty - 1868




• Cedes the Black hills to the Sioux
• Black Hills = Gold
• Black Hills war
• Custer’s Last Stand / Custer’s Bluster
                                           http://www.custerwest.org/accueileng.htm
Native Americans at the End of the 19th Century
In a letter to General Sheridan of date October 15, 1868

General Sherman said:

    "As to extermination; it is for the Indians themselves to determine… As brave men,
    and as the soldiers of a government which has exhausted its peace efforts, we, in the
    performance of a most unpleasant duty, accept the war begun by our enemies, and
    hereby resolve to make its end final.

    If it results in the utter annihilation of these Indians, it is but the result of what they
    have been warned again and again, and for which they seem fully prepared.

    I will say nothing and do nothing to restrain our troops from doing what they deem
    proper on the spot, and will allow no mere vague general charges of cruelty and
    inhumanity to tie their hands, but will use all the powers confided to me to the end
    that these Indians, the enemies of our race and of our civilization, shall not again be
    able to begin and carry on their barbarous warfare on any kind of pretext that they
    may choose to allege.”
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse 1877

We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our tepees. We
preferred hunting to a life of idleness on the reservation, where we were
driven against our will. At times we did not get enough to eat, and we were
not allowed to leave the reservation to hunt.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense for the government.
All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the
winter, who destroyed our villages.

The “Long Hair” [Custer] came in the same way. They say we massacred him ,
but he would do the same thing to us had we not defended ourselves and
fought to the last. Our first impulse was to escape with our [women], but we
were so hemmed in that we had to fight.
The Dawes Act - 1887
“The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war, for the
more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be
maintained as a species of paupers.”
                                                 - General William Tecumseh Sherman 1867

[to be civilized is to]… "wear civilized clothes...cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in
Studebaker wagons, send children to school, drink whiskey [and] own property."
                                                                   – Congressman Henry Dawes
The Dawes Act - 1887




•The Dawes Act divided tribal lands into individual parcels.
Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado was one of the most outspoken
opponents of allotment.

In 1881, he said that allotment was a policy "to despoil the Indians of their
lands and to make them vagabonds on the face of the earth."

Teller also said,
"the real aim [of allotment] was "to get at the Indian lands and open them up
to settlement. The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indians are but
the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them....If this were done in the
name of Greed, it would be bad enough; but to do it in the name of
Humanity...is infinitely worse."
VISION:
The Dawes Act codified the idea of dividing Indian lands into individual holdings to promote
assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal relations. Surplus land was given to whites.

Allotted land for specific tribe and left other tribal allotments to the discretion of the President.

“Civilize” the Indians through education, private property, and introduction of agriculture.

Support from paternalistic Easterners



REALITY:
Supporters of the Dawes Act either knew or should have known that in many cases it would mean
allotting land that could not be farmed.

The Indians, for the most part, did not become self-supporting farmers or ranchers.

Inheritance caused problems as allotments were further and further subdivided.

The Dawes Act prescribed the assimilation of Native Americans and the loss of their traditional ways of
agriculture, but most significantly, it resulted in the loss of Indian lands.

Native Americans didn’t get the right to vote until 1924.
Native Americans at the End of the 19th Century
Native Americans at the End of the 19th Century
Oklahoma Land Runs - 1889




•   September 22, 1891: Land run to settle Iowa, Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie, and Shawnee
    lands.

•   April 19, 1892: Land run to settle the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.

•   September 16, 1893: Cherokee Strip Land Run. The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened nearly
    7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) to settlement on September 16, 1893. The land was purchased
    from the Cherokees for $7,000,000.

•   May 23, 1895: Land run to settle the Kickapoo lands.
Ghost Dance - 1888




• Wovoka
• Native American apocalypse
• A return to life without the white man
Wounded Knee - 1890
The frozen body of one of the victims at Wounded Knee. The caption written on this photograph identifies him as the
medicine man who triggered the conflict with a handful of dust tossed into the air to illustrate how the power of the Ghost
Dance would sweep the whites from the plains. (Library of Congress)
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

When the madness ended, Big Foot and more than half of his people were dead or
seriously wounded; 153 were known dead, but many of the wounded crwaled away to
die afterward. One estimate placed the final total of dead very nearly 300 of the
original 350 men, women and children. The soldiers lost 25 dead and 39 wounded,
most of them struck by their own bullets or shrapnel.

A detail of soldiers went over to the Wounded Knee battlefield, gathering up Indians
who were still alive and loading them into wagons. As it was apparent by the end of
the day that a blizzard was approaching, the dead Indians were left lying where they
had fallen. (After the blizzard, when a burial party returned to Wounded Knee, they
found the bodies, including Big Foot’s, frozen into grotesque shapes.)

The wagonloads of wounded Sioux reached Pine Ridge after dark. Because all available
barracks were filled with soldiers, they were left lying in the open wagons in the bitter
cold while an inept Army officer searched for shelter. Finally the Episcopal mission was
opened, the benches taken out and hay scattered over the rough flooring.

In was the fourth day after Christmas. When the first torn and bleeding bodies were
carried into the candlelit church, those who were conscious could see the Christmas
greenery hanging from the open rafters. Across the chancel front above the pulpit was
strung a crudely lettered banner: PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.
Assimilation
• http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ma
  rr.html
• http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ind
  ianschoolsinoregon.html
“A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of
his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I
agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be
dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
              -Richard H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, 1892
Native Americans at the End of the 19th Century

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Native Americans at the End of the 19th Century

  • 1. Recommendations for Indian Policy 1886 The Native Americans lead a strong resistance against their forced relocation evidenced in the Battle of the Greasy Grass, Red Cloud’s war, the Nez Perce trail, etc. Write a government policy arguing one of the following solutions for Native American-White relations. Mention specific ways in which it could be implemented. Present your policy. 1. State the purpose of the policy. 2. Give a reason for the policy. 3. Discuss the implementation of the policy. POLICY OPTIONS a. No regulation b. Return to Homeland c. Reservation System d. Assimilation e. Annihilation
  • 2. Homestead Act - 1862 • Legal mandate for Manifest Destiny • 160 acres for a small fee
  • 3. Fort Laramie Treaty - 1868 • Cedes the Black hills to the Sioux • Black Hills = Gold • Black Hills war • Custer’s Last Stand / Custer’s Bluster http://www.custerwest.org/accueileng.htm
  • 5. In a letter to General Sheridan of date October 15, 1868 General Sherman said: "As to extermination; it is for the Indians themselves to determine… As brave men, and as the soldiers of a government which has exhausted its peace efforts, we, in the performance of a most unpleasant duty, accept the war begun by our enemies, and hereby resolve to make its end final. If it results in the utter annihilation of these Indians, it is but the result of what they have been warned again and again, and for which they seem fully prepared. I will say nothing and do nothing to restrain our troops from doing what they deem proper on the spot, and will allow no mere vague general charges of cruelty and inhumanity to tie their hands, but will use all the powers confided to me to the end that these Indians, the enemies of our race and of our civilization, shall not again be able to begin and carry on their barbarous warfare on any kind of pretext that they may choose to allege.”
  • 6. Battle of the Little Big Horn
  • 7. Crazy Horse 1877 We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our tepees. We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on the reservation, where we were driven against our will. At times we did not get enough to eat, and we were not allowed to leave the reservation to hunt. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense for the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the winter, who destroyed our villages. The “Long Hair” [Custer] came in the same way. They say we massacred him , but he would do the same thing to us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the last. Our first impulse was to escape with our [women], but we were so hemmed in that we had to fight.
  • 8. The Dawes Act - 1887 “The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.” - General William Tecumseh Sherman 1867 [to be civilized is to]… "wear civilized clothes...cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in Studebaker wagons, send children to school, drink whiskey [and] own property." – Congressman Henry Dawes
  • 9. The Dawes Act - 1887 •The Dawes Act divided tribal lands into individual parcels.
  • 10. Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado was one of the most outspoken opponents of allotment. In 1881, he said that allotment was a policy "to despoil the Indians of their lands and to make them vagabonds on the face of the earth." Teller also said, "the real aim [of allotment] was "to get at the Indian lands and open them up to settlement. The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indians are but the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them....If this were done in the name of Greed, it would be bad enough; but to do it in the name of Humanity...is infinitely worse."
  • 11. VISION: The Dawes Act codified the idea of dividing Indian lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal relations. Surplus land was given to whites. Allotted land for specific tribe and left other tribal allotments to the discretion of the President. “Civilize” the Indians through education, private property, and introduction of agriculture. Support from paternalistic Easterners REALITY: Supporters of the Dawes Act either knew or should have known that in many cases it would mean allotting land that could not be farmed. The Indians, for the most part, did not become self-supporting farmers or ranchers. Inheritance caused problems as allotments were further and further subdivided. The Dawes Act prescribed the assimilation of Native Americans and the loss of their traditional ways of agriculture, but most significantly, it resulted in the loss of Indian lands. Native Americans didn’t get the right to vote until 1924.
  • 14. Oklahoma Land Runs - 1889 • September 22, 1891: Land run to settle Iowa, Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie, and Shawnee lands. • April 19, 1892: Land run to settle the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. • September 16, 1893: Cherokee Strip Land Run. The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened nearly 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) to settlement on September 16, 1893. The land was purchased from the Cherokees for $7,000,000. • May 23, 1895: Land run to settle the Kickapoo lands.
  • 15. Ghost Dance - 1888 • Wovoka • Native American apocalypse • A return to life without the white man
  • 17. The frozen body of one of the victims at Wounded Knee. The caption written on this photograph identifies him as the medicine man who triggered the conflict with a handful of dust tossed into the air to illustrate how the power of the Ghost Dance would sweep the whites from the plains. (Library of Congress)
  • 18. Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee When the madness ended, Big Foot and more than half of his people were dead or seriously wounded; 153 were known dead, but many of the wounded crwaled away to die afterward. One estimate placed the final total of dead very nearly 300 of the original 350 men, women and children. The soldiers lost 25 dead and 39 wounded, most of them struck by their own bullets or shrapnel. A detail of soldiers went over to the Wounded Knee battlefield, gathering up Indians who were still alive and loading them into wagons. As it was apparent by the end of the day that a blizzard was approaching, the dead Indians were left lying where they had fallen. (After the blizzard, when a burial party returned to Wounded Knee, they found the bodies, including Big Foot’s, frozen into grotesque shapes.) The wagonloads of wounded Sioux reached Pine Ridge after dark. Because all available barracks were filled with soldiers, they were left lying in the open wagons in the bitter cold while an inept Army officer searched for shelter. Finally the Episcopal mission was opened, the benches taken out and hay scattered over the rough flooring. In was the fourth day after Christmas. When the first torn and bleeding bodies were carried into the candlelit church, those who were conscious could see the Christmas greenery hanging from the open rafters. Across the chancel front above the pulpit was strung a crudely lettered banner: PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.
  • 20. • http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ma rr.html • http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ind ianschoolsinoregon.html
  • 21. “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” -Richard H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, 1892