“Harvest of Blood”

End of the FrontierEnd of Native American Lands

Group Presentation

• Examine your question• Read/Skim the corresponding pages in the

text• Be prepared to respond to the question to

narrate your slide for the class

How and why did corruption and distraction of the Civil War lead to violence in the Plains?

What were ways that Americans attempted to assimilate Native Americans? Were some more humane than others? Explain.

How were government policies with regard to Native Americans inconsistent?

After 1876, how did Native Americans attempt to survive?

What were the final acts of armed resistance andwhy did Indian armed resistance come to an end?

“Western democracy included individual liberty, as well as equality. The frontiersman was impatient of restraints. He knew how to preserve order, even in the absence of legal authority. If there were cattle thieves, lynch law was sudden and effective: the regulators of the Carolinas were the predecessors of the claims associations of Iowa and the vigilance committees of California. But the individual was not ready to submit to complex regulations. Population was sparse, there was no multitude of jostling interests, as in older settlements, demanding an elaborate system of personal restraints.”

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

Excerpt

CRITICS IN CHICAGO 1893 NOTED THAT SELF-CIVILIZED INDIANS WERE OMITTED FROM THE FAIRE

Other Historians: “that the West did actually include other groups and thus the settler was not creating a new society/community”.

Emma Sickles was Fired…

• Indian activist who had helped establish schools for native Americans

• Criticized the World’s Fair for not celebrating the progress of the American Indian

• Note the persistent racism…