HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorando Pietri, Gertrude Ederle, Olympic Games
24 Apr 2016
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White settlers, along w/ the us government & army, engaged in dozens of indian. Wars w/ native nations through the continent during the 19th c. Dawes act, or general allotment at of 1887, divided indian lands into individual homesteads. Granted land & us citizenship to indians willing to leave reservations & start family farms. Made excess land available for white settlement. Attempted to systematically eradicate indian culture in favor of mainstream. Marching band at sherman institute, riverside, ca. A class in domestic art at the phoenix indian school. Many boarding school students suffered from physical, mental, & sexual abuse. The canadian government pursued this policy of cultural genocide because it wished to divest itself of its legal and financial obligations to aboriginal people and gain control over their lands and resources . Persistent myths of the noble savage and the vanishing race.
