The Legacy of Conquest Settling the Wild West I II Neil Young AIM and New Attitudes about American Indians a 1974 Cortez the Killer song deals with Aztec genocide by Cortez b AIM American Indian Movement surround and take over Wounded Knee SD held out for 71 days and then surrender Heading West why a 1870 90 Most rapid expansion Frontier closed in 1890 1 Cheap Land 1 Homestead Act of 1862 government policy to give people land for a filing fee and effort to improve the land Business Opportunities 1 Land speculation buying land from someone who had previously owned it Manifest Destiny and ideas about conquering the natural world 1 A higher power makes something good 2 3 4 Opportunities for Freedom a the Exodusters III The Fate of the Natives Death or Reform 1 the Eradication school 1 disruption of the natives to get their land a b c Sand Creek Massacre 1864 a Nov 29 Colorado b Cheyenne Indians Fetterman Massacre 1866 a Dec Montana b Sioux Indians Little Big Horn 1976 2 the Assimilationist school a Re educate Indians with education land policy law and make them civilized i ii iii Indian schools i Young Indians taught to live like Americans Reservations The Dawes Act of 1887 i US Government put Indians on reservations and gave them land with hope that they would become farmers IV Failure of the Dawes Act and Assimilation 1 2 3 best land ends up sold to whites land speculation problems lack of compatibility with native lifestyles V The Ghost Dance 1890 a Combined elements of Christianity and traditional Indian religion b Wavoka Paiute shaman claimed that he had a vision and that if they all joined together in the Ghost Dance that all of the whites would be destroyed in an apocalypse VI American Indians not just victims of history
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