Indigenous People on a Closing Frontier

Question 1

In the 1870s, the US government took a new approach to how it treated Indigenous people by

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encouraging assimilation.

Question 2

What was the main goal of the Dawes Act?

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to strongly encourage Indigenous peoples to become farmers

Question 3

Supporters of the Dawes Act of 1887 said the law would

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help Indigenous peoples become landowners and farmers.

Question 4

What was one of the aims of the Dawes Act of 1887?

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to divide and distribute land to Indigenous peoples

Question 5

Read the quotation from Mrs. Z. A. Parker below.[T]hey raised their eyes to heaven, their hands clasped high above their heads, and stood straight and perfectly still, invoking the power of the Great Spirit to allow them to see and talk with their people who had died.What does Parker describe in this quotation?

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the movements of Sioux tribes during a Ghost Dance ceremony

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