US History › Section I · The West and big business › Topic I.3
The assault on American Indian life and culture
Between the 1850s and 1890, the United States used treaties, war, the destruction of the bison and finally forced assimilation to take most of the West from its Native nations. Native peoples resisted at every stage, and their nations survived.
In this topic
- Nations in the path of settlement
- From treaties to reservations
- War and massacre in the 1860s
- The destruction of the bison
- The Black Hills and the Little Bighorn
- Worked example: Chief Joseph's surrender
- The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee
- Reformers and "Americanisation"
- Boarding schools
- Worked example: how allotment shrank Native land
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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