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Reservations
What was the name of the land that the U.S. government put NA on to separate them from western settlers?
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To preserve their land and culture
What did the NA hope for when they signed the treaty of Fort Laramie?
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No
Did native families want to send their children to Indian Schools?
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American (Geroge Armstrong Custer) attacked a camp of Indians who refused to remove to a reservation.
Why did the Battle of the Little Big Horn happen?
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The American bison (buffalo)
What herd nearly went extinct due to industrial expansion?
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Manifest Destiny
What was the belief that the US had the right to spread the values of white civilization across the land called?
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The treaty of medicine lodge
The ______ treaty was when the Native Americans were hoping to preserve limited land and hunting by moving the tribe onto a reservation?
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Pennsylvania
What state was the Carlisle Indian School located?
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The government, they took the Black Hills and confined the Lakota to the reservation.
Who wins the Battle of Little Big Horn, and what did they get?
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Name one: alcohol, guns, and disease
What did the white people bring when they invaded native American territory?
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Imperialism or colonialism
What was the process of expanding further west by conquest, displacement, and rule over the native people called?
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160 acres of land from the reservation
What did Native Americans get in the Dawes Allotment Act?
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The students would be farther away from the “contamination” of tribal values
Authorities preferred Indian Schools be boarding facilities for what reason?
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Colonel John M. Chivington butchered 270 Indians even though they surrendered.
What happened in the Sand Creek Massacre?
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Name one. Alcohol, guns, and disease
What did the white people bring when they invaded native American territory?
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Forced Assimilation
What was the process the U.S. government used to "civilize" Indians, by making them adopt their culture, language, values, etc?
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No, since they discovered gold in the Black Hills.
Did Americans keep their promise in the Treaty of Fort Laramie? Why?
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A whipping with a leather belt
What was punishment for speaking your native tongue in an Indian School like Carlisle?
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The city treats them as heroes
What did the city of Denver feel about the Sand Creek Massacre?
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Indian Empire of Comanchería
What was the name of the NA empire where ethnic cleansing wiped out many of the remaining people?
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White settlers, United States controlled most of the territory that was formerly occupied by Native Americans
Who are the only people that Native Americans can sell their allotments to? And what is the effect after that?
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(the group with the best explanation gets the points)
The original goal of Indian Schools was to assimilate Native Americans into American society so that they could be self-reliant. Did the US succeed in their goal? Why, why not?
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