FROM TREATIES TO STATEHOOD NA = NATIVE AMERICANS (FIRST NATION PEOPLE) WS = WHITE SETTLERS Chapter 4 Review

Chapter 4, Lesson 1 The Treaty Making Period

LAND OWNERSHIP MEANT DIFFERENT THINGS TO EACH GROUP. NA DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF OWNING THE LAND. WS WANTED TO OWN PIECES OF LAND THAT THEY WOULD HAVE FOR THEMSELVES. Cultural conflict between Native Americans and white settlers occurred because…

LEADERSHIP IDEAS WERE DIFFERENT. NA HAD TRIBAL COUNCILS AND THE CHIEF HAD TO HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE COUNCIL. WS CHOSE LEADERS TO SPEAK FOR THEM AND MAKE RULES & LAWS. Cultural conflict between Native Americans and white settlers occurred because…

THE CONCEPT (IDEA) OF WHITE SUPERIORITY GAVE SETTLERS THE BELIEF THE “GOOD” MEANT “CIVILIZED OUR WAY.” WHITE SETTLERS THOUGHT NATIVE AMERICANS SHOULD EAT, DRESS, WORK, & WORSHIP LIKE THE WHITE PEOPLE DID. Cultural conflict between Native Americans and white settlers occurred because…

GOLD WAS DISCOVERED ALONG THE UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER AND WHITE SETTLERS SEEKING GOLD TRESPASSED ON THE YAKAMA NATION RESERVATION. WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE WHITES AND THE NATIVE AMERICANS. IT WAS STOPPED WHEN THE U.S. ARMY KILLED MANY OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE AND FORCED THE NA TO SIGN A PEACE TREATY. The Yakima War

CHIEF JOSEPH LED HIS PEOPLE AWAY FROM WAR WITH U.S. SOLDIERS AND NEARLY MADE IT TO CANADA BEFORE SURRENDERING FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE. HE SAID, “…MY HEART IS SICK AND SAD. FROM WHERE THE SUN NOW STANDS, I WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER.” The Nez Perce War & Chief Joseph

The Dawes Act  The law divided reservation land into sections.  The act encouraged NA to become farmers.  Individual Indians could apply for U.S. citizenship once they got a title to a plot of land.  In order to gain citizenship, however, NA had to break ties with their tribal ways of living.  The Dawes Act was repealed (stopped) in 1934 and tribal authority was restored.

 THE PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOLS WAS TO ASSIMILATE NA INTO WHITE CULTURE.  CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILY AND USUALLY SENT TO OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA, OR VIRGINIA.  FIRST NATION CHILDREN LOST THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY. Boarding Schools The Purpose

 THE POPULATION HAD TO BE AT LEAST 60,000.  THERE HAD TO BE A STATE CONSTITUTION.  A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS REQUIRED. Washington Territory becomes a State on November 11, To become a state…