Chapter 7 Two Worlds Collide

Question 1

Sovereign

Answer 1

Independent and Self Governing

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

When one culture is absorbed by another, larger, culture

Question 3

Annuities

Answer 3

Annual payments in the form of food, equipment, supplies and funds from the U.S. government

Question 4

Reservations

Answer 4

land that tribes reserved for their own use through treaties

Question 5

In general, what did the U.S. want from these treaties?

Answer 5

Build railroads/ roads through land, eventually settle on land together with Native Americans

Question 6

In general, what did Natives want from treaties?

Answer 6

To maintain/increase territory, preserve way of life, protection from enemies

Question 7

What were 4 problems with the treaties?

Answer 7

language barrier and translators, government structure of tribes misunderstood, differing ideas of what land ownership meant, U.S. did not follow through on treaties

Question 8

Who was at the Fort Laramie Treaty? (multiple choice)

Answer 8

Lakota, Crow, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Northern Cheyenne, Shoshone

Question 9

What was agreed upon during the Fort Laramie Treaty?

Answer 9

Tribal lands were defined, required tribes to make peace with one another, allow roads/railroads to pass through

Question 10

Who was at the Hellgate Treaty? (multiple choice)

Answer 10

Kootenai, Salish, Pend d’Orielle

Question 11

What did the U.S. want the tribes to do at the Hellgate Treaty?

Answer 11

Move onto 1 reservation.

Question 12

What was the main problem with the Hellgate Treaty?

Answer 12

Not 1/10 of the information was understood

Question 13

Who was at the Lame Bull Treaty negotiation? (multiple choice)

Answer 13

Blackfoot, Pend d’Oreille, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Cree, Gros Ventre

Question 14

What did the Sioux receive at the 2nd Fort Laramie Treaty 1868?

Answer 14

Half of North and South Dakota

Question 15

Give specific examples of the U.S. not holding up the treaty agreements.

Answer 15

Settlers before Red Cloud’s War (Bozeman Trail)

President Grant moving land of Blackfeet

Question 16

What are the series of events that occurred during Red Cloud’s War?

Answer 16

2,000 people came through on Bozeman Trail
U.S. built army posts to protect settlers instead of protecting the upholding tribes treaty rights
Series of attacks on U.S. army posts by Lakota Sioux leader Red Cloud
Burned the forts as U.S. army left

Question 17

Describe the events of the Massacre on the Marias

Answer 17

Blackfeet men killed a well-known settler named Malcolm Clark
Tribe refused to turn themselves in
U.S. sent Major Baker stationed in Bozeman January 1870
Spotted a Blackfoot camp on the way north and attacked
173 people were killed, including 53 women and children
They realized they attacked the WRONG camp = dishonorable

Question 18

Did the Crow strategy of cooperation with the U.S. government work out for them? Why or Why Not?

Answer 18

No, the government took 37 million acres from them.

Question 19

Describe the Salish interaction with the U.S. government.

Answer 19

They began farming, they agreed to move if they were paid for their land,
U.S. agreed to pay but never did, this starved out the Salish and they left to the Flathead reservation.

Question 20

What are 2 famous battles involving the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne?

Answer 20

Rosebud and Little Bighorn

Question 21

What happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 21

General Custer planned to attack a Northern Cheyenne and Sioux camp from different directions
Strategy backfired. Custer’s army was destroyed.

Question 22

Match: Leader to the Tribe:

Chief Joesph

Answer 22

Nez Perce

Question 23

Match: Leader to the Tribe:

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

Answer 23

Sioux

Question 24

Northern Cheyenne

Answer 24

Dull Knife

Question 25

Why did the U.S. change the strategy away from negotiating treaties?

Answer 25

Native Americans were consistently defeating military parties.