Important Local Events: Read pages 364-365 … answering (1) Defining assimilation. (2) Dawes Act … (3) Further assimilation … - Traditional tribal feasts … - To further speed assimilation … 1874 – Custer Black Hills Expedition 1874-79 – Black Hills Gold Rush 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877 – Black Hills Cession 1879 – American Indian Boarding School Movement (first Lakota children taken) 1883 – Court of Indian Offenses 1887 – Dawes Act 1889 – Sioux Act of 1889

Assimilation * Assimilation – to be “absorbed into American society”; more adequately means being forced to adopt the dominant, American culture. (1860 – 1870’s) American Indian Boarding Schools (1883) Court of Indian Offenses (1887) Dawes Act

Assimilation Boarding Schools – Based upon the theory of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” Cultural genocide Forbidden to speak Native languages & practice traditional practices The “Outing” program

Read Handout, “Black Hills Cession, American Indian Boarding Schools, and Court of Indian Offenses” and answer questions …

Assimilation (1887) - Dawes Act – communal tribal lands divided into 160 acre allotments per family Two cows and yoke of oxen Farm tools $20 cash Seed for five acres for two years 40 Acres 40 Acres 160 Acre Allotments 40 Acres 40 Acres

Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

Sioux Act of 1889 – Creates six much smaller reservations in Western South Dakota with break-up of Great Sioux Reservation, including today’s … Pine Ridge Rosebud Cheyenne River Standing Rock Allotment of lands Excess lands opened for homesteading Loss of 9 million acres of land

Video, “Taken From My Home” * Complete the questions …