NA Gilded Age

Question 1

Main points to remember

Answer 1

• Carlisle Indian Industrial School
• Dawes Act (landoweners, loss of land, citizenship and right to vote, etc)
• Navajo tribe benefitted
• 1876 battle of Little Bighorn
• 1881: Helen Hunt Jackson- ‘A century of dishonour’
• development of farming communities
• 1871 Indian Appropriation Act
• Ex Parte Crow Dog 1885
• 1898- Curtis Act
• 1884- Elks vs. Wilkins
• 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee
• ‘Sioux Ghost Dance’
• 1882- Indian Rights Association (IRA) founded- Believed in assimilation

Question 2

Overall

Answer 2

• Whist it is possible to argue that Native Americans did gain in the field of education, the Gilded Age overall saw a regression in the rights of Native Americans as it was viewed as a direct attack on their culture and rights as the government pursued its policy of assimilation