HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Southern Farmer s Alliance II Populist Party III Election of 1896 Outline of Current Lecture II Definitions III Grant s Peace Policy IV 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Current Lecture Defintions Ethnogenesis combination of cultures to make a new culture Example Comanches went from a hunt walking group to adopting horses as their main transportation they were a business oriented tribe they would trade with other tribes traded horse to the Spanish if soldiers or white people captured women the women would not leave the Comanches because it was a group everyone wanted to be a part of Agency buildings on reservations where management took place Reservation land assigned to the tribes given by the government the reason for a reservation system was because it kept the tribes from being extinct and the provided all of the tribes needs Problems with the system they had to get them to practice American culture they banned their religions changed their clothing and reconstructed how buildings and homes were built they had to make a transition from hunting to farming since women did most of the labor work American culture wanted the men to do the labor work and women learn how to become housewives These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Grant s Peace Policy the goal was to minimize military conflict with the Indians Indians were to stay on reservations where they would receive government aid and training supervised by religious denominations Indians were no longer allowed to engage in disputes or send war parties off the reservations the Army s job was to force them back assimilate the Indians into American society any Indian could leave the reservation at any time and join the larger society and have full citizenship 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty a U S Indian Peace Commission signed three treaties at Medicine Lodge Creek One treaty was made with the Kiowa and Comanche second confederated the Plains Apache with the Kiowa and Comanche the third was negotiated with the Arapaho and Cheyenne the U S promised the tribes peace and protection from white intruders in return for amity and relocation to reservations in western Indian Territory The Indian agent s role was charged to oversee reservation affairs such as construction of buildings employee residences and schoolhouses He was also an agent of civilizing measures incorporated in the treaties Both the United States and the tribes failed to follow articles in the treaties Indian annuity goods and rations were delayed producing starvation sickness and material deprivation among the tribes The tribes continued raiding and taking captives outside their reservations in violation of the treaties
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