History of American Indians and the United States

Plains Wars 1823-1918

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Humanities 109 | MWF 9:20 - 10:15 AM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30

Social Science 60S

Monday, October 9

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today's class

  • settler colonial pressure 1830s-1890s
  • Plains Wars
  • reaction & aftermath

where are we?

  • Extermination era 1840-1887
  • Plains wars - 1823 - 1887/1918
  • Dakota War - 1862
  • Treaty of Fort Laramie
  • Grant's Peace Policy - 1869
  • Allottment & Assimilation era 1887-1940
  • Dawes Allotment Act - 1887
  • Wounded Knee - 1890
  • Indian Citizenship Act - 1924

contributing factors

  • free vs. slave states debates
  • California Gold Rush 1859
  • Homestead Act 1862
  • Transcontinental Railway 1869

1848 - 1890

plains
plains

Dakota War 1862

  • 1851 - Treaty of Traverse de Sioux
  • Civil War - US defaults on annuities
  • govt monopoly on trade at reservations + corruption
  • April 1862 - 5th Minnesota called up
  • August 1862 - 800 white settlers killed

Dakota War 1862

dakota
dakota

Dakota War 1862

spoon
spoon

Dakota War 1862

dakota
dakota

Mariposa War 1851 and Nez Perce War 1877

yosemite
yosemite

Grant's Peace Policy - 1869 - 1877

  • our friend Ely Parker
  • shift to reservations, not extermination
  • govt subsidies and training
  • “any course toward them which tends to their civilization and citizenship”
  • groundwork for Assimiliation & Allotment

Battle of Little Bighorn/Battle of Greasy Grass/Custer's Last Stand - 1876

  • vastly underestimated number of Native men
  • focus on hostage taking
  • eastern backlash against Grant's Peace Policy
  • "sell or starve"

Apache Wars 1848 - 1886

apache
apache

Fort Marion

marion
marion

Ledger art

ledger
ledger

Dahosan Calendar 1832 - 1894

images
images