Nez Perce War

to return to what is left of their land. Chapter 3: Little Crow's War Manipulated by deceptive treaties, the Santee Sioux surrender most of their land for money and provisions they mostly do not receive. Little Crow does not want to fight the military might of the United States but has no choice when some of his men kill white settlers. The Santees are ultimately overpowered by the Army and by a Santee traitor. Chapter 4: War Comes to the Cheyennes White settlers ignore a treaty and begin settling

considered American citizens. This Act was a disaster. Only whites benefited from the act, taking 500,000 acres of land leaving Indians to have only 177,000 acres which were supervised by whites meaning it wasn't really their land anyway. After the Civil war in 1890 railroads crisscrossed the Great Plains, farmers and cattlemen exploited land formerly owned by Indians(Give Me Liberty). Celilo Falls which has another name called Horseshoe Falls was a home for all Native Americans such as the Chinookan people

speak many of the native languages. She thus become Lewis and Clarks translator and guide. She ensured the expedition could avoid conflict with native tribes and helped trade supplies with them. Near the end of their travels Twisted Hair and his Nez Perce Indians saved the lives of Lewis, Clark, and their fellow explorers in the Appalachian mountains. The explorers were lost and

History 17B Midterm #1 Zack Jodry History 17B Professor Pritchard March 10th, 2015 Jodry 2 Part One: Explain the various policies of the US government toward Native American tribes, 1870-1890. Give concrete examples of these policies and various tribal responses to US government actions. America’s Gilded Age. A time where in the span of 20 years, a major amount of progress has made its way to our young nation. The Statue of Liberty made its debut on

The purpose of this essay is to examine and analyze Katrine Barber's book, "Death of Celilo Falls". In this book, Barber successfully seeks to tell the story of a momentous event in the history of the West, the building of the Dalles Dam in 1957. Celilo Falls was part of a nine-mile area of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Despite the fact that the Celilo Village still survives to this day in the state of Oregon (it is the state's oldest continuously inhabited town), the assembly of The Dalles

Gilded Age Shortly after the Civil War, in 1865, the United States experienced unprecedented growth and prosperity through an era known as the Gilded Age. Although it is a time where some of the wealthiest men have ever lived and the financial exploits were dramatically extreme, it was also an era of abject poverty and inequality as millions of European immigrants came from their impoverished it came at the expense of many people, such as the Native Americans, urban workers, and farmers. Their

Nearly every Native American Indian tribe has experienced some kind of neglect or discrimination. The white man has forcefully moved tribes from their homes, broken treaties that were promised to them, and senselessly slaughtered thousands of innocent Indian men, women, and children. This kind of neglect is what led to the Battle of Little Bighorn Creek, a battle that is talked about in The Great Plains, the book I chose my topic from. The reason this subject touched me personally is because

A Backstabbing Country There is a knock at your door. You open it to see that it is a general of the United States army. He tells you that you must leave your home immediately and move to a piece of land that the government has assigned you. If you refuse, the military will have to interfere. All of your tight-knitted community members have heard the same message within the last week. This, in a less modern sense, is what happened to the Northwest Indians of the United States in the late 1800s to

gilded age the change and industrialization, along with the progressive area were events that lead to the problems and issues that the United States addressed. Because of the Civil War, the lives of American Indians were greatly impacted. Before the civil war, Indian tribes and whites were enemies. By the end of the war, the two groups had grown together and became significant to one another, this included the Great Plains. This was a huge benefit for

Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples by Roger L. Nichols, provides six main acts that accounts for the majority of the reasons the Indians and the Americans fought. Nichols wants readers to have an accurate account on the whys of each war and how each conflict is related with each other- with each conflict is interlock in one single web of American-Indian relations. The six reasons provide are the key threads that that locks the conflicts together. Nichol’s attributes these six actions