HUSH Ch 26
The ghost dance
spiritual dance Indians would do to get rid of whites and bring back the buffalo
Sand Creek
1864 Sand Creek, Colorado, Colonel J.M. Chivington's militia massacred over four hundred Indians who apparently thought they had been promised immunity. Women and children were shot, braves were tortured. 400 Indians massacred.
Reservations
Land set aside for Indians
J.M. Chivington
Led sand creek
Helen Hunt Jackson
Massachusetts writer of children's literature, wrote a Century of Dishonor about the government and indians, Romona a love story about discrimination against california Indians
Sooners
They had to be evicted repeatedly by federal troops, who on occasion would shoot the intruders' horses.
Custer
Youngest general in the union Colonel Custer's 7th Cavalry tried to suppress the Indians and return them to the reservation. • were up against a force of 2,500 armed warriors along the Little Bighorn River, the "White Chief with Yellow Hair" and about 250 officers and men were completely wiped out in 1876 • Indian victory
Buffalo soldiers
What Indians called african americans
Chief Joseph
Who said "I will fight no more forever"?
Buffalo Bill Cody
William Cody, telescope eyed with a crack shot, killed over 4,000 animals in 18 months while employed by the Kansas specific, Performed shows
Donner party
a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846-47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Wounded Knee
army stamped out the "Ghost dance" that had spread to the Dakota Sioux • estimate of 200,000 indians men, women, and children killed
Sitting Bull
holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to the united states policies; he was hunkpapa lakota; leadership inspired his people to a major victory
Carlisle Indian School
in Pennsylvania, Native Americans were taught english and white values and customs • "Kill the indian and save the man"
Dawes Act
land set aside for Indians was allowed to families instead of tribes Gave title to land on a piece of paper • Misguided attempt to reform governments Native American policy. • Goal was to assimilate native Americans into the mainstream American life by dissolving tribes as legal • Took away their lands
Morrill Act
land/$$ for agricultural colleges
Chief Joseph
leader of Nezperce Tribe: "Hear me, my Chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Surrendered 1877.
Geronimo
leader of apache; surrendered 1866
Little Bighorn
result of the Fetterman massacre, one of the few Indian triumphs in the plains wars