Unit 2: Native Americans Lecture (Honors)

Settlers ignored treaties and competed for resources

Missionaries taught the Indians new farming skills

Railroads offered land to both settlers and Indians

Indian leaders willingly sold their tribal lands

Treaties were forced and reservation life bred poverty and corruption

The army never enforced the treaties or built the reservations

Native leaders rejected the idea of forming any tribal councils

The government had no interest in protecting the buffalo herds

The army encouraged hunters to kill buffalo to force Indians onto reservations

The army preserved buffalo herds to maintain Native hunting traditions

The army ignored buffalo hunters and refused to get involved

The army relocated buffalo to protected lands near reservations

It was a temporary Native victory that led to stronger army retaliation

It ended hostilities by forcing the Lakota Sioux onto new reservations

It secured a permanent peace treaty between Custer and Sitting Bull

It demonstrated that the U.S. army was unwilling to fight Native tribes

The return of buffalo and the removal of settlers from the Plains

The training of Native children in boarding schools for farming

The signing of treaties that granted Indians new farming lands

The ability to trade more freely with miners and homesteaders

Hundreds of Native men, women, and children were killed

The Sioux won a decisive victory that ended reservation policies

Sitting Bull negotiated peace and secured larger land allotments

Congress ended the Dawes Act and restored tribal governments

By dividing reservations into private family farms

By forcing tribes to relocate onto larger reservations

By banning Indians from practicing traditional religions

By giving tribes control over natural resources and trade