Chapter 17 Section 2 Native Americans Struggle to Survive - Sheet1 Flashcards
What were the consequences of the conflict between the Native Americans and white settlers?
Attempts to coexist were abandoned and removing Native Americans from their land became standard policy.
Why was the buffalo important to many groups?
Native Americans used buffalo for food, clothing, tools, and shelter.
Why did the nations of the Plains depend so heavily on the buffalo?
The depended heavily on the buffalo because it could provide for many of their basic needs.
How did the nations of the Plains cope when the buffalo herds began to disappear?
When the buffalo began to disappear, Native Americans had to change their way of life.
How did life change for Native Americans when miners, settlers, and railroads moved west?
Treaties protecting Native Americans were broken so that miners and railroad companies could obtain more land. Native Americans resisted the loss of their land, and wars broke out.
How did federal officials make Plains nations settle in one place?
They forced them to live on reservations.
Why did Native Americans react violently to living on reservations?
They did not want to lose their lands and traditions, and life on reservations was hard.
Why couldn’t strong leaders like Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph save their people’s lands?
Native Americans were outnumbered.
What kind of education did Sitting Bull give his children?
He realized he could not teach his children the skills they would need for the future, so he sent them to non-Indian schools to learn to read and write.
Why did the buffalo begin to disappear?
People who worked for the railroad companies and other settlers were hunting buffalo for food, sport, and profit.
Why did Custer attack at Little Bighorn?
He had orders to force Native Americans onto a reservation.
What was the “Long Walk”?
The “Long Walk” occurred after the Navajos were defeated by American soldiers in Arizona and were led to live near the Pecos River.
Why did the government want to stop the Ghost Dance?
Settlers thought it was a step toward war, and feared anything that might serve to unite the Native American groups.
Why did one chief say “A people’s dream died” at the Battle of wounded Knee?
The unnecessary massacre of the Sioux people exhausted whatever hopes of freedom they had left.
How did being restricted to reservations change the way of life of Native Americans on the Great Plains?
Native Americans lost their traditional lifestyles. They were expected to settle down, stop following the buffalo, and become farmers.
