NA synthesis pairings

Question 1

1868 Fort Laramie treaty via 1866 Fetterman massacre & 1868 Red Cloud war - Plains wars & SOVEREIGNTY

Answer 1

Ultimately this NA initiated violence triggered the Federal government’s response of permanently ending sovereignty rights as seen in 1871 with the Indian appropriation act which ended recognition of tribes as independent nations and the 1871 Reservation act which formally ended treaties & attempts to coop. w nas.

Question 2

1934 Indian Reorg. Act & 1953 termination policy - govt & SOVEREIGNTY

Answer 2

Similarly demonstrated continued govt unwillingness to provide tribal sovereignty.
- IRA undermined the sovereignty of tribes by removing tribal courts inhibiting their ability to self-govern
- Termination policy = removal of recognition of tribes as domestic dependent ‘nations’, forcing them to be self-sufficient Americans.

Question 3

1887 Dawes Act, Curtis Act 1898 & 1903 Lone Wolf vs Hitchcock - most important govt & SOVEREIGNTY

Answer 3

Govt. decision to viciously revoke tribal ownership of land through the allotting of land to individuals rather than tribes = demonstrating the willingness of all branches of US government to dismantling tribal identity to pursue a policy of ‘Manifest Destiny’.

Question 4

PW & Culture

Question 5

1906 antiquities act & 1990s NAGPRA - CULTURE

Question 6

CULTURE

Question 7

PW and LAND

Question 8

LAND

Question 9

1887 allotment policy (Dawes), 1898 Curtis Act, 1903 Lone Wolf & Grants veto of protection of Buffalo 1874 GOVT & LAND

Answer 9

the pursuit of the allotment policy of 1887 & Grants veto of protection of Buffalo 1874 – parcelling up of land through 1887 dawes then consolidated by 1898 curtis act & Lone wolf 1903 & the decimation of buffalo by govt effectively prevented the NAs from pursuing their belief that land was not an individual’s property and from continuing their traditional nomadic lifestyle.