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Native American Treatment I. 17th and 18th Century - disease A. New England – lived separate – Squanto interpret saved > Thanksgiving 1. King Phillip > relative Squanto’s tribe > unites New England 2. Pennsylvania/William Penn & Rhode Island/Roger Williams buy land 3. 1704 Deerfield Massacre – raid/tomahawk/kidnap 4. Albany Plan of Union – Franklin – union 1754 w/ Iroquois against other tribes B. Virginia – “starving time” > stealing > Indian Raids C. Spanish – encomienda – slavery, missions - California D. French – worked with – fur trappers E. French and Indian War – 1757-1763 – Proclamation Line of 1763 – no west of Appalach. II. 19th Century A. War of 1812 – 1795-1809 48 million acres sold to gov’t 1. Battle of Tippecanoe – Tecumseh – united – treaties others Indians – defeated a. British helped > Native Americans warpath > kill settlers > war begins B. Andrew Jackson – move > west Mississippi 1. 94 Treaties – some peaceably, some fought 2. Seminoles – Florida swamps – Chief Osceola – 1830s 3. Cherokees – Americanized – Georgia 1. Clothes, farms, factories, schools – Sequoya – alphabet 2. Worcester v. Georgia – Marshall saved lands 3. Jackson “Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” a. Trail of Tears – 1838 – 15,000 – 1500 died C. 1850-1900 – 420,000 > 250,000 left D. Indian Wars – 1850 > 1890 – buffalo basis of life, slaughtered by whites 1. White settlers move onto lands, forts to protect travel 2. 1868-1869 – gather onto big reservations – forced out of wilderness a. Many resisted – “Wild West” – Custer’s Last Stand – Sioux – Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse Chief Joseph “From where the sun now stands I will fight no more, forever.” 3. Wounded Knee – kids, women slaughtered – signaled the end III. 20th Century – by 1990 – 2 mill. #s up – but worst health, income, unemployment, suicide A. Snyder Act – 1924 – citizenship B. FDR – Indian New Deal – no sell lands, rebuild culture C. WWII – 25,000 soldiers – Windtalkers – code D. Eisenhower – termination – no fed. Involvement > but states don’t help 1. “relocation” – urbanization > 45% urban by 1970 > but displaced, Indian ghettos E. Lyndon Johnson – “The Forgotten American” - $510 mil. – Indian aid programs F. Richard Nixon – Indians run reservations, positions in Bureau of Indian Affairs Education – 1970s/1980s – bilingual – good>pride – bad> compete jobs 1. Education peaked 1970s then declined 2. study tribal history, culture & language also G. Indian Power –AIM – American Indian Movement 1. violence – occupy buildings – want $/recognition for treaties– 1969>1971 – Alcatraz H. State courts – return land – 1970s-1980s I. 1850-1900 – 420,000 > 250,000 J. Multibillion $ gambling industry – 1990s Stages: 1) Part of wilderness to be cleared, 2) “wards” of the state, taken care of – reservations, 3) relocated to cities, 4) given autonomy over reservations