HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wild West Shows, Luther Standing Bear, Microsoft Powerpoint
5 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Naive americans in boarding schools, sports, & society. War and peace: white setlers, along with the army, engaged in dozens of indian wars with naive. Assimilaing adults: the dawes act or general allotment act of 1887 divided indian lands into individual homesteads. Granted land and u. s. ciizenship to indians willing to leave reservaions and start family farms. Made excess land available for white setlement: it also: Atempted to systemaically eradicate indian culture in favor of mainstream. Let indian beneiciaries with the worst available land. Assimilaing the youth: carlisle indian school, pennsylvania 1879-1918. Kill the indian to save the man. : luther standing bear, many boarding school students sufered physical, mental, and sexual abuse. The persistent myths of the noble savage and vanishing race: indians being connected to the earth. In the revenant, a bird lies out of a bullet hole out of a dead naive american: wild west shows, world"s fairs and exposiions.
