FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Indians attended reservation schools and learned a trade.
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Indians could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.
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Indians learned English and could gain the right to vote.
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Indians saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was a negative aspect of the “Americanization” policy of the late 1880s for American Indians? Seeing the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.
Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians.
Detailed explanation-3: -How were Native American cultures threatened in the 1800s? Native Americans were forced onto reservations. They also were not immune to the diseases.
Detailed explanation-4: -Effects of the Dawes Act The overall effect of the Dawes Act on American Indians was a negative one. One of the most significant impacts on American Indians was the destruction of the communal holding of property where tribes worked as a collective to ensure the collectives survival.