Treatment of Native Americans

Question 1

What was the Dawes Act?

Objective?

Answer 1

• Authorised the federal government to break up tribal lands and reservations into individual plots of land
• Only Native Americans who accepted individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens
• The object was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society

Question 2

When was dawes act passed ?

Answer 2

1887

Question 3

What was the ghost dance?

Answer 3

• Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called Ghost Dance
• According to the teachings, the Ghost Dance ceremony would reunite the spirits of dead and living for a successful battle with the White Americans, restoring the Native American way of life

Question 4

What was wounded knee?

Answer 4

• The US military surrounded a camp of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota
• While attempting to disarm the Sioux, a shot was fired and the soldiers began to openfire
• Massacred hundreds of men, women and children

Question 5

When was wounded knee?

Answer 5

dec 29th 1890