AINS 1049 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mercantilism, Indian Child Welfare Act

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: American Indian and Native Studies
• Course: AINS 1049
• Professor: Stephen Warren

Document Summary

Chicago went from a small city to 1 million. It wasn"t about natural resources such as gold. First cities to have skyscrapers and transportation networks. Wealth doesn"t all go to england, build a home grown economy. Extract natural resources and ship it back to spain. 128 countries tired up to metropole in europe. Mercantilism- a closed trading system and not with other countries (anst. ) Wheeler-howard act: director of indian affairs john, a bill that says that the tribal government have to be modeled after the united states government, such as chief executive. Men would have to go live with their mother-in-laws if they married someone not like in other societies. Children were taken from their families to go to these schools. The state had the power to place the child where they wanted. 1887-dawes general allotment act- every male of the household of 160 acres of land and the surplus land given to whites.