Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 14, Lesson 3, Indian Lands Lost (pp. 422-426)
I. Indians and White Settlers Clash
B. Tribes signed treaties with the U.S. government, trading land
use and promises of peace for annuities, which were yearly provisions
of supplies.
C. As Indians lost more land and the government did not provide
the annuities Indians expected, many bloody clashes occurred between
Indians and white settlers.
II. Policies that Changed Indian Life
B. The Dawes Act was an unsuccessful government law to divide up
Indian reservation land into grants for individual Indian families.
C. The U.S. government tried to assimilate Indian children by sending
them to schools to learn white customs and give up their own traditions.
D. Through resettled on reservations with their way of life gone,
Indians continued to practice many of their old beliefs and rituals.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. At first, Plains Indians got along with settlers, but clashes
began as more whites moved to the Plains, killing buffalo and
taking Indian hunting lands.
A. After the Civil War, the government began moving the Plains
tribes to reservations.
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