Continuity and Change 1880-1910 What’s Come before: Continuity and Change 1880-1910
A. Indian Wars Great Sioux War 1876-7: Battle of Little Bighorn Custer’s Last Stand Black Hills War 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee Minor skirmishes continued into 1920s
B. Allotments and Dawes, Curtis Dawes Act 1887 Curtis Act 1898
C. Spanish American & Pilipino Wars Spanish American War 1898: Bert Holderman (Cherokee) Roosevelt’s cook Philippine-American War 1899-1902: Victor M. Locke (Choctaw)
D. Reservation life 1908-1913 Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship 1907-1930 Edward Curtis photography 1878-1923 Hampton Institute in Hampton, VA 1879: Carlisle Indian Industrial Training School 1900: 20,000 Indian students in government schools
E. Federal Policies 1900-1910 1900-7 Dawes Commission Burke 1906 1903 Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock 1907 Oklahoma becomes a state Inauguration of Teddy Roosevelt March 5, 1905 delegation of Indians march
F. Public Perceptions of Indians Wild West Shows Buffalo Dance (1894) from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Thomas Edison's Buffalo Bill Wild West Show
F. Public Perceptions of Indians Sports stars John Levi & Red Grange All American football 1923 Jim Thorpe (Sauk-Fox, OK) Carlisle 1912 played All American against Army w/ Dwight Eisenhower 1912: Stockholm Olympics 2 gold medals pro football and baseball 1920s Louis Tewanima (Hopi, Carlisle) 1908 and 1912 Olympics, Track Charles Bender (Ojibwe, Carlisle) Philadelphia baseball 1903-17 John Meyers (Cahuilla) NY Giants & Brooklyn Dodgers 1908-18
F. Public Perceptions of Indians 3. Movies The Mended Lute 1909 Luther Standing Bear (Sioux) acted in Tom Ince films 1910 The Indian Brothers 1911 Fighting Blood 1911 1913 The Battle At Elderbush Gulch