Displacing the Plains Indians (unit 2, lesson 3)

Fetterman Massacre

What massacre of troops took place on the Bozeman Trail

horses

What was introduced that was important to the Plains Indians to herd bison and become more effective hunters?

agriculture

What was the earliest occupation of Plains Indians?

Bureau of Indian Affairs

administered Indian policies during peace time

U.S Army

administered Indian policies during war

assimilation, eradication, and relocation

distinct but confused positions of the federal policy toward the Indians?

Corruption, inefficiency, ineptitude

distinguishing characteristics of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Nothing was done

done to punish those who had participated in the massacre?

Bozeman Trail

from Colorado to Montana through several mountain passes and valleys.

Colonel John Chivington

led a shameful massacre by militia at Sand Creek

bison herds were destroyed.

led to the end of the nomadic character of the Indians?

how gov ended Indian attacks

sent all the Sioux to a reservation in South Dakota with fixed boundaries.

nomadic tribes

were exposed to white settlers and contracted deadly diseases such as smallpox.

White effect in west

white settlers and their assumption of territory meant further displacement for the Indians, the threat of eradication by disease, and impacted their hunting due to land treaties and the decreasing herds of buffalo.