Learning Objective: You will be able to explain the events of the creation of Indian Reservations which will better help you understand the reason for fewer Native American tribes existing today.
Do Now:
1. Define Reservation
2. Map Skills Below.
Instructional Objectives:
Direct Instruction – 10 minutes of Questions and discussion, elicit info from students and put on board.
I - Moving Westward - Native Americans Movement:
A) As more people began to immigrate to the United States the Native Americans were pushed westward.
B) The US government attempted to restrict Indians to reservations to make room for non-Indian settlers.
Why were the Native Americans being forced to move?
II - Native American Resistance:
A) Sand Creek - One of the earliest confrontations between the US military and the Native Americans. 200 Indians massacred, most of them women and children.
B) Treaty of Medicine Lodge - Plains Indians exchanged for much of their land their land in order to obtain reservation land.
III - Fighting Continues:
A) Battle of Rosebud (1876) - Was not an all out victory for the Native American people, but inspired confidence in their forces.
B) Battle of Little Bighorn - A momentary triumph which later led to the downfall of the Indian forces.
C) Battle of Wounded Knee - Considered the final battle in the Plains Indians - US conflict.
IV - Indian Surrender:
Through the use of boarding schools designed to assimilate (make the same) Native American children, the American government believed this was the most successful way to get rid of Native American culture. One of the first schools was The Carlisle Indian School which would assimilate students into American culture.
Sharing Out / Final Summary – This is how you end the lesson, with questions or activity.
Why did the native American people choose to assimilate their children to American Culture? Use evidence from the video.
