Native Americans Thriving Culture
Native Americans Thriving Culture
History of the United States Since 1865, HIS 204
Dr. Darrell Rice
August 22, 2011 Native Americans Thriving Culture
“North America was not an uninhabited land when European settlers first came because there was already an indigenous and thriving culture of people” (Bowles, 2011, The Isolation of the Plains Indians 1850s-1890s, para. 1). Through the many treaties and wars, the Native Americans where forced to live on reservations, first the one big reservation until finally smaller reservations to isolate each tribe from other tribes. Native Americans learned to live without the great buffalo herds and some to farm the land during their isolation. To overcome this isolation took many years of dedication from the American Indian to reveal their culture to future generations. Although Native Americans survived isolation there was a struggle from 1865 to the present, because many challenges where involved in ending the American Indian’s isolation, along with the major people involved in their struggle.
First, Native Americans survived isolation through the different struggles from 1865 to the present. In 1867, a treaty was being negotiated and the Indians refused to give up any more of their land, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 removed soldiers from the Powder River country and new boundaries for the Crow Indian Reservation in Yellowstone Valley (Heidenreich, 1985). The removal of the solders was the results of Red Cloud’s War, the only war that the United States ever lost to the Indians (Heidenreich, 1985). Crow’s boundaries included the east and south of the river to the present-day Montana-Wyoming line in the Yellowstone Valley (Heidenreich, 1985). Yellowstone Valley is an isolated area that the Indian tribes would visit but as whites would deplete surrounding resources the Indians where forced into the Valley.
The Crow and Sioux reservations joined in the valley, making the hunting grounds a joint area for
History of the United States Since 1865, HIS 204
Dr. Darrell Rice
August 22, 2011 Native Americans Thriving Culture
“North America was not an uninhabited land when European settlers first came because there was already an indigenous and thriving culture of people” (Bowles, 2011, The Isolation of the Plains Indians 1850s-1890s, para. 1). Through the many treaties and wars, the Native Americans where forced to live on reservations, first the one big reservation until finally smaller reservations to isolate each tribe from other tribes. Native Americans learned to live without the great buffalo herds and some to farm the land during their isolation. To overcome this isolation took many years of dedication from the American Indian to reveal their culture to future generations. Although Native Americans survived isolation there was a struggle from 1865 to the present, because many challenges where involved in ending the American Indian’s isolation, along with the major people involved in their struggle.
First, Native Americans survived isolation through the different struggles from 1865 to the present. In 1867, a treaty was being negotiated and the Indians refused to give up any more of their land, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 removed soldiers from the Powder River country and new boundaries for the Crow Indian Reservation in Yellowstone Valley (Heidenreich, 1985). The removal of the solders was the results of Red Cloud’s War, the only war that the United States ever lost to the Indians (Heidenreich, 1985). Crow’s boundaries included the east and south of the river to the present-day Montana-Wyoming line in the Yellowstone Valley (Heidenreich, 1985). Yellowstone Valley is an isolated area that the Indian tribes would visit but as whites would deplete surrounding resources the Indians where forced into the Valley.
The Crow and Sioux reservations joined in the valley, making the hunting grounds a joint area for