1. 1 st period Bellringer Thursday 8/27 (Turn in your signed syllabus if you have it) Then: Use your notes from yesterday to help you answer these questions. You do not have to write the question unless you don’t know the answer. 1) What was the book “A Century of Dishonor” about? 2) Why would the destruction of buffalo hurt Native Americans? 3) What are reservations?

2. Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 South Dakota Natives doing Ghost Dance- ritual to return Native American lands/connect with their dead– made U.S. government nervous. U.S. 7 th Calvary rounded up 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Next day, soldiers demanded the Natives give up all of their weapons. A shot was fired (unsure which side), and then white soldiers opened fire with a deadly cannon. Outcome: Within minutes, Seventh Calvary killed 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans including several children. Soldiers left corpses to free in the ground. Significance: Brought the Indian Wars to an end, this is the last of the Indian Wars.

3. 2 nd period Thursday 8/27 No bellringer today to save time. Please turn in your signed syllabus (back page only) if you have it. Then take out your notes from yesterday and be ready to finish up where we left off

4. 3 rd period Bellringer Thursday 8/27 **Turn in your signed syllabus and your Chief Joseph reading Qs (from yesterday if you didn’t finish) to the front table. Select one of the Native American battles we studied yesterday (Sand Creek, Fetterman Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee Massacre) and create a Cinquain for it: 1 st line = Term/Event 2 nd line = 2 adjectives to describe (explain) 3 rd line = 3 action verbs ending in “-ing” (explain) 4 th line = phrase that describes 5 th line = synonym (explain) Example: Soddy Dirty, Damp Changing, Building, Isolating A structure made out of grass/dirt House

5. Indian Wars Sand Creek Fetterman Little Big Horn Wounded Knee

6. Native Americans & Assimilation Focus Question: How and why did the U.S. government attempt to assimilate Native Americans in the late 1800s?

8. Assimilation To adopt the ways of another culture; to cause a person to become a part of another culture AKA: Americanization

9. Examples of Assimilation: -Boarding Schools -New “American” names -New hairstyles -New Dress -Christianity

10. A famous example of assimilation- The Carlisle School

11. Dawes Act Dawes Act (1887) Attempt to “Americanize” Native Americans Broke up Reservations Gave land to individuals (80 acres) or families (160 acres) Government would pay for farming equipment Natives never see a dime Why would the U.S. Government want to assimilate Native Americans?

12. Native Americans Prior to European arrival? By 1890?

13. Native American Boarding School Document Activity Birthday Partners! Each pair gets 1 packet with PRIMARY SOUCE documents and pictures. For Parts A-D just one person needs to write for your pair. For Part E (Final Reflection) everyone will write individually

14. Was assimilation good for native Americans? Individually, evaluate whether Assimilation was best for Native Americans. Respond to the following prompt “Assimilation was the best possible option for Native Americans because it allowed them a chance to be successful in America for the first time.” Make sure you reference at least two specific details from the documents studied in class- put the document letter in parenthesis (Document B)

15. Was assimilation good for Native Americans? YES NO

16. Into the West Clip As you watch, try to find at least three examples of how Native Americans were assimilated Assimilation

17. Native Americans Today Washington Redskins Controversy Should the name be changed?