history- west

- destroyed communal way of life
- individual farms of 160 acres
- promoted assimilation through boarding schools

- 160 acres
- Title to the land in 5 years

last incident between whites and Native Americans

- Taking an active role and fighting back
- Active participants

in charge of maintaining
reservations and providing Native Americans with supplies

tried to escape to Canada – Leader of Nez Perce, lived in Pacific North
West, (new states) tried to stay out of way of whites because he didn’t want to
have his people live on a reservation. killed white settlers because they were coming into land

allowed cowboys to take large numbers of cattle to rail centers

an invention encouraged the spread of privately owned cattle ranches

large farms that were operated like factories

where the eastern and western links of track met up 

Wrote about frontier and Native Americans.

Native American school that tried to do away with Native American culture

a railroad system that crossed the continental united states

the new thinking was that instead of removal, treaties, reservations, or war, the government did this

an expression of deepest grief about the loss of Native American way of life

home built from squares of turf and soil of the prairie stacked up like bricks