Takaki, Chapter 9

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Takaki, chapter 9

The Indian Question

1. Manifest destiny

1. The Turner Thesis

1. Social Darwinism and “progress”

1. “warlike tribes”

1. “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”

1. How the West was lost

1. The iron horse

1. Slaughter of the buffalo

1. Son of the Morning Star
2. Slaughter on the Washita - 1868
3. A few brave stands – Rosebud Creek and Little Big Horn – 1876

1. Removal and reservation

1. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

1. Wovoka

1. The Ghost Dance

1. Sitting Bull

1. Wounded Knee Creek – December, 1890

1. Hotchkiss “anti-personnel” weapon

1. Slit trenches and mounds of bodies

1. Allotment and assimilation
2. Paternalism – from “Idleness, frivolity and debauchery . . . [to] . . . habits of thrift and industry” – Senator Henry Dawes

1. Dawes Act – 1887 (“giving” the Indians what they already owned – their land)

1. Burke Act – 1891: Nullifies the twenty-five year trust provision of the Dawes Act. Open up Indian lands for sale

1. Lone Wolf decision – 1903: Supreme Court rules that the federal government has the right to abrogate the provision of an Indian treaty.

1. “Dispossession and pauperization”

1. The Indian “New Deal” and John Collier - a commitment to cultural pluralism

1. The abolition of allotment

1. The Navajo

1. Hoover dam

1. New Deal (liberal) paternalism

1. Who knows the land?