HIST 151 Lecture 5 Chapter 17 The Contested West cont Outline of Last Lecture I Homestead Act Homesteading and Sharecroppers II Mormons III Chinese Railroad Workers Coolies Outline of Current Lecture I 5 Civilized Tribes II Indian Removal III United States Office of Indian Affairs Dawes Act IV Lt Col George Armstrong Custer Current Lecture 5 Civilized Tribes Cherokee Choctaw Muscogee Creek Chickasaw Seminole We thought these tribes were better than the others They stayed back east longer than the other tribes In our eyes they were modern and progressive because they had their own currency school and slaves HOWEVER we eventually pushed all these tribes off their land except for one which are the Seminole They put up such a fight that after 40 years of trying and spending a lot of money the government gave up They are still on their land today Indian Removal Basically the removal policy always had to do with natives It existed long before Washington even English colonists came with guns and disease which started the process of removing natives from their own land There are only around 500 tribes left today out of thousands United States Office of Indian Affairs Dawes Act 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 The Office of Indian Affairs was created in 1867 under the cabinet to oversee Indians and their removal The removal hadn t been working so well so they decided to employ forced relocation Congress didn t think the Office of Indian Affairs was doing a good enough job so they wrote up the Dawes Act This reclaimed all of the Indian reservation land 90 million acres for the government The government then offered each native family 160 acres to allow private ownership This was meant to assimilate the natives and essentially turn them into Americans Obviously most of the natives did not want to be American but this was the law up until 1934 It ended the native way of life Lt Col George Armstrong Custer In 1876 Grant sent Custer plus 250 men to Little Big Horn in the Dakota Territories present day Montana to look for gold This area held 2 500 Sioux from different tribes Custer and his men went into areas where they weren t supposed to go so Sitting Bull sent his warriors out after them The Sioux killed all of them except the scalp who was a guy who was meant to scalp natives They sent him back on a fresh horse to tell the rest of the white men to let this be an example The government then sent 25 000 men to fight the Sioux
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