HIST 2020 1st Edition Lecture 3Outline of Last Lecture I. BackgroundII. Native Americans of the Great Plainsa. CultureIII. White Intrusion and its Impacta. Increased white migrationb. Buffalo Huntersc. The Reservation SolutionOutline of Current Lecture D. The Sioux Example and what it tells usE. Saving the IndiansF. End of Native American Resistance on the plainsCurrent Lecture3. Apache Wars (1876-1886) -Buffalo Soldiers4. AtrocitiesD. The Sioux Example and What it Tells Us-Example: When Indians are upset about it, whites call troops to defend them and remove the Sioux Indians off of the land that was theirs. The Sioux are forced on a smaller reservation and they resist. This is going to result in the Massacre of General Custard in 1876. General Custard has an army and moves into Sioux territory, then split his command to cover more land. They find the Sioux and attack. The Indians swarm custard and massacre him and his men. (One of the worst defeats in history)1. Indians are treated as obstacles and placed on smaller and smaller reservations.2. Broken agreements- treaty of Laramie3. Those who resisted ultimately defeated 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.E. "Saving the Indians"1. "Friends of the Indian" Humanitarians really wanted to help the Indians and seek what was in their best interest. These people were outraged how the government was treating Natives. They were very critical of the reservation system, because Indians were forced to poverty, etc. The humanitarians felt thebest way to deal with this was Americanize these natives and end the reservation system.2. Influence of Social Darwinism: Indians are considered to be very low down on the evolutionary scale. Humanitarians think if we Americanize them, they will develop into a higher person.3. Native American Schools were made to "help" the Indians become Americans. One of the ways the humanitarians forced the government to help Indians was to create these schools. These schools taught girls to be housewives and boys to be farmers. There was an Indian band, and taught American sports. They also had to pick a new name that sounded American. They basically tried to eliminate everything ofIndian culture.4. Dawes Act (1887): This was passed by congress. The reservation solution had failed and did not eradicate the Indian way of life and culture. The Dawes Act took the remaining Indian reservations, divided them up into parcels of 160 acres, and awarded them to Indian families. The father was to become a farmer; the female was to become a housewife. There were a lot of others who said well the remaining land should be just given to whites once the worthy Indians had been awarded land. So they did give some land to whites, which meant less for Natives.F. The End of Native American Resistance on the Plains1. Wovoka was an Indian medicine man who began to teach the Indians that they could remake their world. He claimed to have gone to heaven in a trancelike state and had been instructed that if the Indians performed ghost dances all over the Great Plains, it would bring about a regeneration of the world. Whites would go away and buffalo would return. These dances suggest how desperate Indians had become.2. Wounded Knee (1890): There was a group of Sioux who had been performing these ghost dances. Soldiers showed up and gathered Indians to take them to a reservation and a gun goes off, no one knowswho fired, but when the shot goes, all American soldiers fire into the group of Indians. They killed about 300 men, women, and children and are called the "Wounded Knee