FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Women were not equal to men
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That land could not be bought or sold
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That all living things have a spirit
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The Buffalo are a way of life for Native Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also known as the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. Thus, Native Americans registering on a tribal “roll” were granted allotments of reservation land.
Detailed explanation-2: -They resisted the law by engaging in a millenarian movement called the Ghost Dance. Indians would sing and dance for days and envision a world without whites where they could practice their traditional customs and the buffalo had returned. The Dawes Act failed to assimilate many Indians.
Detailed explanation-3: -The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture, which meant dividing tribal lands into individual plots. Only the Native Americans who accepted the division of tribal lands were allowed to become US citizens.