Answer:
Forced to move to reservations and
Government breaks treaties
Lifestyle changes because of forced
assimilation
Killing the buffalo
Explanation:
Settlers felt justified in taking Native Americans
land because they felt they were making the land
more productive
Treaties forced millions
of Native Americans
onto reservations
• Reservation: small
piece of government
land set aside for
Native Americans
After tribes made treaties that relocated them to
reservations, the US government and settlers
frequently broke these treaties and took even more
land from Native Americans
Deliberate reduction of buffalo herds to
force them to move off their hunting
grounds to reservations
Efforts to get Native Americans to become settled farmers
– settlers wanted the land to be used more “productively”.
• Dawes Act – Reservation land was divided into 160 acre
plots and given to individual families to farm for a profit.
• Missionaries attempted to convert Native Americans to
Christianity.
• Indian Boarding Schools – Children were sent to schools to
focus on skills such as carpentry and housekeeping.
• Native Americans were not considered citizens until 1924
This is also known as the trail of tears
