 Thank you for being wonderful while I was out. I’ll fill you in on the Wild West DBQ after the bell rings.  Please take out your BYOD device and log onto the school’s wireless network.  If you’re device can’t access the wireless network, share with someone who can.  Go to:  Read the introduction and take the quiz to test your Native IQ!

 How do these images demonstrate assimilation?

Today’s LEQ: What successes and failures emerged for a growing American society?

 To settlers, the railroad represents progress  To Indians, it threatens their very existence  Battled for survival = Indian Wars

NON-NATIVE AMERICANS  Land can be bought, sold, and owned  Buffalo killed for food, fun, and to starve out the Native Americans NATIVE AMERICANS  Land cannot be bought, sold, or owned  Buffalo was their livelihood (used ever bit of the Buffalo for survival)

 During the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson had removed all Indians East of the Mississippi (Indian Removal Act of 1830)  Trail of Tears

 Conflict erupts again when settlers begin moving West; they view N.A. as obstacles  Some tribes sign treaties and are put on reservations (federal land set aside for N.A. tribes)  Many tribes fight to defend homelands and ways of life

 In 1868, the Sioux (a.k.a. Lakota) signed a treaty that was intended to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux  Sioux agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation of the Dakota Territory  In this treaty, what did the U.S. government promise to the Sioux?  What does the U.S. government require the Sioux to do (or not do)?  Less than 10 years later, gold was discovered in the region and white miners started settling in lands sacred to the tribe  U.S. gov’t unable to remove the settlers and unable to persuade the Lakota to sell  Conflict was inevitable!

 Policy aimed at assimilation  Absorption of Indians into the dominant culture  “white men’s ways”  Each family granted its own plot of land  Land not good for farming  Not interested in farming

 By the 1890s, improved agriculture and ranching techniques made many white Americans realize the Indian territory in Oklahoma was very valuable  Gov’t began to allow and encourage settlement there; gave away 2 million acres of Indian land to whites in a race  At noon on April 22, 1889 – Great Race – over 10,000 settlers raced for claims

 Boomer – settler who rushed into the land legally  Sooner – settler who marked land before the race illegally