HIST 151 Lecture 6 Chapter 17 The Contested West cont Outline of Last Lecture I 5 Civilized Tribes II Indian Removal III United States Office of Indian Affairs Dawes Act IV Lt Col George Armstrong Custer Outline of Current Lecture I Wounded Knee II 1890 Census and Frederick Jackson Turner s The Significance of the Frontier in American History III Helen Hunt Jackson s A Century of Dishonor Current Lecture Wounded Knee 300 to 500 Sioux were at a winter camp It was mostly children and the elderly except for a few strong young boys who were engaging in the Ghost Dance a government prohibited activity where the best young men of the tribe would take hallucinogens and paint themselves for a trance state which would turn them into invincible warriors Troops come by and ask them to put their few weapons in a pile One of the drunk Ghost Dancers accidentally set off his gun when he stumbled and so the troops murdered everybody present except for one Black Elk who ran away 1890 Census and Frederick Jackson Turner s The Significance of the Frontier in American History Turner was a young edgy history professor He delivered a keynote speech at the National Historian Conference called The Significance of the Frontier in American History The speech said the frontier made America unique and the place to be but it s closed now due to its complete settling The 1890 Census proves this This swept the nation and had everybody asking what now where will people emigrate to Helen Hunt Jackson s A Century of Dishonor 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 Jackson was an old lady who came to Colorado Springs to get over sickness She started to read about the plight of the Native Americans She ended up writing a book called A Century of Dishonor She wanted people to know that they were incredibly wrong for killing so many natives and she wants the American people to help them Technically she could be called the first muckraker However it is one sided and not well researched
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