Tribes

Question 1

What five tribes are considered as civilised?

Answer 1

Cherokee
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Creek
Seminole

Question 2

What and when was the trail of tears?

Answer 2

It was during 1830-1850 and was a march the Cherokee were forced to do its estimated around 4000/15000 deaths

Question 3

What was Washington’s view on tribes?

Answer 3

He wanted to respect their right to homeland as long as they assimilated into society

Question 4

What was the Indian removal act

Answer 4

This allowed the president to grant tribes land on the Great Plains in exchange for their land in the east

Question 5

How did the Cherokee resist the Indian removal act

Answer 5

Resisted through creating a protest petition.
As a result led to the trail of tears

Question 6

How did the Seminole resist the Indian removal act

Answer 6

Fought a guerilla war against the USA army from 1835-42
They surrendered and were moved to the plains

Question 7

By 1840 how many people from eastern tribes had been moved onto the Great Plains?

Answer 7

70,000-100,000

Question 8

Why did the government chose to give the NA the Great Plains?

Answer 8

Because the white settlers didn’t want it and NA were seen as inferior to them

Question 9

What did the Cherokee do to adapt into society

Answer 9

They had European style houses and owned their own newspaper

Question 10

What tribes were referred to as the plains Indians?

Answer 10

Lakota Sioux
Cheyenne

Question 11

What lifestyle did the Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux have?

Answer 11

A nomadic lifestyle (moved around)

Question 12

How was the Lakota Sioux organised?

Answer 12

They were split into seven bands
Each having a chief and a council of elders

Question 13

What was seen a vital to the Lakota Sioux?

Answer 13

Buffalo

Question 14

What did the Lakota Sioux use buffalo’s for?

Answer 14

Meat for food
Skin for clothes and tents
Bones for weapons and tools

Question 15

What did the Lakota Sioux live in?

Answer 15

Tipis because they were easy to take down to follow the buffalo’s

Question 16

What was tribal welfare?

Answer 16

They would preform acts of bravery such as stealing horses or counting coup

Question 17

What was the Lakota Sioux’s view on land?

Answer 17

It was sacred and couldn’t be brought or sold so belonged to everyone

Question 18

What did the Lakota Sioux believe in?

Answer 18

That Wakan Tanka created the world and that everything contained a spirit which they needed to keep on their side

Question 19

What made hunting easier for the Lakota Sioux?

Answer 19

Horses brought over by the Europeans in the 16th century

Question 20

Why did the settlers not agree with the plains Indians?

Answer 20

Different views on land ownership
S disagreed with PI nomadic lifestyle
Lifestyles

Question 21

What was the policy of concentration?

Answer 21

The plains Indians would be concentrated to specific areas of the plains called reservations

Question 22

What was the fort Laramie treaty?

Answer 22

NA could no longer live freely on the plains and instead had defined territory for each tribe

Question 23

What impacts did the Fort Laramie Treaty have?

Answer 23

Settlement increased in California and Oregon
Restricting NA to reservations
Broken promises led to NA resentment