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32 Cards in this Set
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What image of the plains Indians have been given to us by Hollywood movie producers |
Savages standing in the way of progress |
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What myth has been handed down to us about the American Indians that explain why there are so few of them today |
They vanished |
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What do the facts suggest |
They were killed by whites or by a disease brought by whites |
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What did the early Puritan settlers do to shape our view of the American Indian |
Puritan settlers recorded distorted information or left out a lot of information about the Indians |
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What two contradictory views of American Indians were brought back to Europe early explorers like Columbus |
They were thought of as wild Heathen and dangerous and on the other hand they were thought of gentle childlike people living in the golden age |
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What did most European explorers agree to when it came to American Indian culture |
American Indians had no culture |
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How advanced was American Indian culture |
American Indian culture contains some of the most sophisticated and densely populated civilizations ever known Indian agriculture was so advanced that it contributed more than half the crop variety used today |
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Who are American Indians descendants from |
From bands of nomadic hunters who crossed the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago |
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What did all American Indian societies have in common |
All American Indian societies had in common that they share deeply religious attitude toward the land |
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How did American Indian feel about ownership of land and personal property |
They had no conception of personal ownership they believed that the land is a gift from the creator in it is to be shared and not owned personal property was anything that could be picked up and moved |
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When Puritan and pilgrim colonist came to southern New England what were Indians willing to do |
Share the land |
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In what ways was fire an important tool used by Indians in the forest |
For hunting it’s purpose is to allow Indians to travel more easily through the forest that had been cleared out that way but most importantly animals are more abundant in that kind of landscape Indians farmed that forest to increase mammal population and supply the food that they needed |
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Because Indian woman did most of the farming what image of the Indian man did European get |
Europeans believed that the Indian men were lazy and shiftless |
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What deadly disease did European colonists bring to American Indians |
Smallpox measles cholera and bubonic plague |
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Why did so many native Americans die from these deadly disease |
No immunity to disease |
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What did the Puritan colonial attack against the Pequot Indian fort along the Mystic River in 1637 turn out to be |
Extermination of the Pequot Indian (genocide) |
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How did the 19th century frontiers men feel about government treaties with native American and about taking their land |
Short term devices which could be ignored or altered later to them the Indian was a savage whose land could justifiably be taken by trickery bullying or murder |
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What was the trail of tears |
The trail of tears is when Jackson sent in the army to force the five civilized Tribes west into the Indian territory many of them had to travel more than 1200 miles in appalling condition over 4000 Cherokee died on the journey which became known as the trail of tears |
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What Attitude did American settlers heading west to California and Oregon take toward native Americans after the Mexican war ended in 1848 |
Indians were savages to be removed from landscape |
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How did the United States government in Washington react to western settlers illegally taking land from the Indians |
The United States government did little series attempt to stop them |
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What united states army general said the only good Indian I ever saw was dead |
General Philip Sheridan |
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Who was colonel J.M Chavington |
A Methodist minister leader of Colorado militia |
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Why was the Sandcreek massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians on November 28, 1864 so vicious |
Because men women and children were slaughtered everyone was scalped nearly 180 Indians most of them women and children were massacred their bodies were mutated in the most horrible manner men and women and children’s privates cut out |
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When the United States government failed to defeat the Sioux Indian tribes of the great plains military what were white hunters told to do in order to drive away the Indians |
White hunters were encouraged to embark on the wholesale destruction of the Indians main food supply which was the Buffalo |
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In the mid-1800s how many buffalos were there in the United States |
60 million |
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By 1910 how many buffaloes were left |
85 single animals left |
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What did the United States government do to the sioux Indians after they defeated General George Armstrong Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 |
The United States government poured reinforcement into the plains the band of sioux and Cheyenne were brought into reservation compounds where they were incarcerated |
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How many acres of land in North America Indian control before white European colonial settlement began in what is now the United States |
2 billion acres |
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In a little over 400 years after colonial settlement of the United States began how much land did the American Indians have left |
Less than 140 million acres |
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How many Indian ghost dancers did US soldiers kill in December 1890 at wounded knee |
More than 300 men women and children were killed |
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Before colonial settlement of America approximately how many native Americans were there in North America |
5 million |
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After 1890 how many native Americans were left |
250,000 |
