1. Important Local Events:
Read pages … answering
(1) Defining assimilation.
(2) Dawes Act …
(3) Further assimilation …
- Traditional
tribal feasts …
- To further
speed
assimilation …
1874 – Custer Black Hills Expedition
– 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

7. 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

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