Small reservations policy (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards

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Year govt shifted to small reservations policy

1865

Why were Plains Indians seen as obstacle by 1865

Threatened western development & railroad construction

What replaced 'one big reservation' concept

Small, separate reservations for each tribe

Year of Medicine Lodge Treaties

1867

Where Southern Plains Indians moved (Medicine Lodge)

Oklahoma reservation

Economic change taught by treaties

Farming - nomadic hunters to settled farmers

Purpose of boarding schools for Indian children

Force assimilation & abandon traditional lifestyle

Year of Fort Laramie Treaty

1868

Trail closed in Fort Laramie Treaty

Bozeman Trail

Where Sioux relocated (Fort Laramie Treaty)

Black Hills of South Dakota

Why Black Hills significant to Sioux

Considered sacred by Sioux people

Years showing dramatic reduction in Native lands

1862 to 1876

Overall goal of small reservations policy

Forced assimilation & eliminate traditional culture

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