Americans Chapter 5.1 and 5.2

Indians believed

• that land could not be owned

• that owning land, making a mining claim, or starting a business would give them a stake in the country

• that they had forfeited their rights to the land because they hadn’t settled down to “improve” it

• that white settlers had a right to claim land

Cheyenne & Arapaho, under protection of the army, were attacked by Col. John Chivington and his men

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

• Red River Wars

• Battle of the Hundred Slain

Crazy Horse and his warriors ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company in a dispute over the the Bozeman Train which ran through Sioux hunting grounds

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

• Red River Wars

• Battle of the Hundred Slain

US Army policy of destroying villages and ponies, killing warriors and imprisoning women and children crushed Indian resistance

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

• Red River Wars

• Battle of the Hundred Slain

Declared that the Sioux would be able to live within the sacred Black Hills of the Dakotas

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee

• Dawes Act

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

General George Armstrong Custer and his company were killed after the discovery of gold lead to the opening of the Black Hills to miners

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee

• Dawes Act

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

Indian movement, started by a Paiute prophet, that sought the peaceful restoration of Indian lands and culture.

• Wounded Knee

• American Indian Movement

• Ghost Dance

• Little Big Horn

When soldiers demanded the Indians give up their weapons, a short was fired leading to the massacre of 300 unarmed Indians.

• Wounded Knee

• American Indian Movement

• Ghost Dance

• Little Big Horn

The Dawes Act

• Changed government policy from removal and reservation to assimilation

• Gave 'allotments' to Indian families then sold off remaining 'reservation' land to whites

• Offered 160 acres of land to a Native American couple or 80 acres of land to an unmarried person

• All of these

Which of the following was NOT central to the life of Native Americans in the Great Plains

• the horse

• the buffalo

• the extended family

• land owership