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Western Expansion and Native Americans

Western Expansion and Native Americans. What were some of the effects of Western Expansion?. To the Settlers, the West was a vast, empty expanse that gave freedom to determine your own destiny.

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Western Expansion and Native Americans

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  1. Western Expansion and Native Americans

  2. What were some of the effects of Western Expansion?

  3. To the Settlers, the West was a vast, empty expanse that gave freedom to determine your own destiny.

  4. For the Native Americans, Western Expansion meant they were told that they had to leave their homes to make room for settlers.

  5. The west allowed for economic opportunities for settlers, as they could farm or run a business in a new, Western community.

  6. For the Native Americans, the land that they survived off of and was sacred to them was taken. The buffalo that they used as food was destroyed.

  7. Settlers were given property rights to land in the west by the Federal Government.

  8. Native Americans laid claim to the same land, and had secured that claim with previous treaties with the U.S. Government. • Unfortunately, those treaties were not honored, and Native Americans were told to leave their land again.

  9. Indian Relocation • Bureau of Indian Affairs was created by the Federal Government to handle relations with Native Americans. • 1850s–1890s: gold and silver discoveries created the need to move Indians again.

  10. Treaty Process Treaties: Agreements with other nations. • Treaties were used to solve the “Indian problem.” • Early treaties (1860s): • Restricted hunting grounds and promised food rations. • Failed solution: Squatters would settle on Indian land breaking the treaty.

  11. Treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867. • Treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867: • Federal government promised to protect Native Americans from loss of hunting grounds, provide Indians with food rations, and protection from white lawlessness. • Led to Red River War: • The failure of the government to uphold its promises led to war between Kiowas, Comanches and settlers and buffalo hunters. Due to the lack of advanced weaponry many Native Americans were killed. This was the last act of Indian resistance in the Southern Plains.

  12. Treaty Process • Second treaties are known as the “reservation treaties” • Restricted Indian land to reservations with promises of the following: 1. Food rations 2. Traditional hunting allowed 3. Education 4. Health Care 5. Housing 6. Rights to energy sources

  13. Treaty Process • Reservations: small areas of land within a group’s territory, land was reserved exclusively for their use • Natives were encouraged to farm & have livestock—be more “civilized” & adopt Christianity • The Federal Government never intended reservations to last forever. • The goal was to assimilation Native Americans into model American citizens.

  14. Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868 • Restricted the Federal Government from taking more land from the Northern Plains Indians for railroads and settlers in exchange for Indian agreement to leave the Plains and settle on the reservation.

  15. Tribal Acceptance of Reservations • Buffalo was almost gone. • Offered some protection of tribal lands • Were not told the long term goal of reservations was to completely assimilate them into American society.

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