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Key 5 Indian responses to white
Incursion
OVERVIEW Native Americans were unable to resist the superior numbers and technology of the white society and were forced to accept settlement on whatever lands the U.S. government was willing to give them. Formal warfare between Indians and whites ended by 1886, when Geronimo, an Apache chief in the Southwest, surrendered to white forces.
Indian resistance to white settlement: Indian response emerged from the 1850s to the 1880s and focused on wagon trains, stagecoaches, white soldiers, and scattered settlements.
Battle of Little Bighorn (1876): One of the most infamous conflicts between whites and native Americans, this battle occurred in Montana.
Chase of the Nez Perce (1877): Another major conflict occurred in Idaho.
Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1890): Led by the Seventh Cavalry, This massacre, in which about 200 Sioux Indians died, was the last episode in a year-long effort by whites to stop a Sioux religious revival known as the Ghost Dance.
Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Designed to accelerate the assimilation of Native Americans into white culture.
Assimilation: In conjunction with the Dawes Severalty Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs also tried other means of assimilation.
•Indian children were taken from their families and sent to whiteboarding schools.
Christianity was encouraged, and churches were established on reservations to stop Indian religious festivals.
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