A HARVEST OF BLOOD: NATIVE PEOPLES DISPOSSESSED
Aim: How did U.S. policymakers seek to stimulate the economy and integrate the trans-Mississippi west into the nation, and how did this affect people living there?
Bell Ringer: Discuss Journal 81 / A: Mining evolved from the discovery of gold in California to silver, copper, lead, and zinc across the West. It fueled settlement in Colorado, the Dakotas, Nevada, and Idaho. Ranching was a result of the near extermination of the buffalo. Originally, cowboys would bring the cattle to market, but eventually stockyards grew up around railroads. Farming, aided by steel plows, barbed wire, and hardier strains of wheat, developed along the Great Plains. They all caused overdevelopment of western lands. The government designated tracts of land as federal park property to guard the land from the ravages of exploitation. (5 min)
Agenda:
1. Discuss Journal 82 / A: Rampant environmental destruction through the accelerated harnessing of natural timber, land, and water resources led morally conscientious Americans in the late 1800s to recognize the tourist and recreational potential of large national reserves, or parks. (5 min)
2. What factors led to warfare between whites and native peoples on the plains?
3. Comparison: Consider why the government wanted to address what it called the "Indian problem." How was the "Indian problem" similar to or different from the issues associated with the newly freed African American population in the South. Are there any parallels between the treatments of these two groups? (5 min)
4. What are examples that show how the U.S. government responded to Indian resistance by using military force, then relocating Indians to reservations, and by trying to end tribal identity through assimilation? (5 min)
5. Journal 83 - How did Grant's peace policy fail to consider the needs of Native Americans in the West, and what were its results? (5 min)
A: Policies insisted on acculturation of native peoples to Anglo-American ways (adoption of Christianity, western education, and farming, although the parcels of distributed land were not always fertile) Results: created war, did not create conditions whereby native peoples could easily achieve independence.
6. Concept Map presentations (rest of class)
Terms to know: transcontinental railroad, protective tariff, Treaty of Kanagawa, Burlingame Treaty, gold standard, Homestead Act, Morrill Act, Comstock Lode, Exodusters, Yellowstone National Park, Sand Creek massacre, Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, Battle of Little Big Horn, Ghost Dance movement, Wounded Knee.
Bonuses will include Key People: two Native Americans and a result of the Morrill Act.
Home Learning:
1. Journal 84 - In what ways did the outlook of native peoples change in the era after armed resistance had ended?
2. Chapter 16 Vocabulary Quiz: Monday, January 22, 2018
3. PERIOD 5 TEST: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 (Read chapter IDs 13, 14, 15, and 16)
4. Chapter 17 IDs due Wednesday, January 24, 2018
SOURCES:
1. 500 Nations (1994) - An eight-part documentary on the mistreatment of Native Americans. Below is part 1.
2. You may want to explore how the tribes discussed in this chapter are faring today. For links to the home pages of Native American tribes across the United States, see the "Native American Sites" website at http://nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
3. Cultural historian Philip Deloris's book Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) acknowledges the discomfort and outright hostility of whites who were forced to acknowledge that allegedly "primitive" peoples could and did choose to live in the modern world, for example, by buying and driving automobiles.
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