Scott Foresman, Fifth Grade, Native American and United States hIstory

1. How were American
Indians forced off
their lands?
By: Mr. Casey

2. AGENDA
•Vocabulary
•Lesson 4- How were Native
Americans forced off of their
land?

3. assimilate
•(verb) to become like the people around you

4. How were American Indians forced off
their lands?
•As European settlers moved to America between
1500 and 1750 and pushed onto American Indian
lands, conflicts would occur so European countries
would sign treaties to try and set boundaries.
WHY SIGN
TREATIES?
U.S.A =LAND, RESOURCES

5. How were American Indians forced off
their lands?
After the French and Indian war settlers begin
pouring into the Ohio River Valley and the
southern part of the U.S. Although King George
III signs the Proclamation of 1763 outlawing
settlement west of the Appalachians, the
settlers ignore his law and push further onto
Indian lands.

6. How were American Indians forced off
their lands?
Later, the U.S.
government
would sign
treaties as well!
They would sign
more than 400
treaties!
American Indians =
*Taken by force
* Didn’t Understand the
treaty
*Negotiated with a few
members of the tribe

7. How were American Indians forced off
their lands?

8. Signed Treaties
•Treaty of Doak’s Stand (1820)- The U.S. signs a
treaty with Pushmataha. His people don’t want to
sign, but they know they will be forced off their
lands (they are supposed to get land west of the Mississippi and have
schools built in return)
By the way, we don’t
have any rights in the
new United States!

9. Signed Treaties
•Cherokee Treaty (1785) - The treaty
guaranteed hunting grounds and
established peace. It is broken in 1792 and
1796. The land is given to the states of
Kentucky and Tennessee.

10. Signed Treaties
In 1830 President Andrew
Jackson signs the Indian
Removal Act

11. Signed Treaties
•In 1838 the Cherokee will be forced to leave their
land and march west. The walk would become
known as the “Trail of Tears.”

12. Trail of Tears (1838)
Cherokee- They are forced to move to
“Indian Territory” in present day
Oklahoma. This journey of several
hundred miles becomes known as the
trail of tears. 16,000 are forced to move.
4,000 will die along the way from
disease, weather, and hardship.

13. Trail of Tears (1838)

14. Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Cheyenne- Sand Creek Massacre.
1864- Friendly
Cheyenne and Arapaho
indians are attacked by
700 Colorado militiamen
and U.S soldiers. More
than 100 indians are
killed and mutilated

15. Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Cheyenne- Sand Creek Massacre.
“I saw the bodies of those lying there
cut all to pieces, worse mutilated than
any I ever saw before; the women cut
all to pieces ... With knives; scalped;
their brains knocked out; children two
or three months old; all ages lying
there, from sucking infants up to
warriors ... By whom were they
mutilated? By the United States troops
...”

16. Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
Originally located near
the Great Lakes, the
Lakota are pushed off
their land in the early
1700s by settlers.
They settle in
parts of North
and South
Dakota

17. Wounded Knee Massacre
Over the next
two hundreds
years, the Lakota
are forced off
their land
through treaties
and battles.
The bison they
once followed,
have almost
been hunted to
extinction by
settlers

18. Wounded Knee Massacre
There is a disagreement between some
soldiers and Lakota in the camp. The U.S
soldiers begin shooting and kill more than 300
Lakota (most of which are women and children)

19. Wounded Knee Massacre
1890-They are
escorted by the U.S
cavalry to a camp at
Wounded Knee
Creek
They are
surrounded
by 500
soldiers.

20. American Indian Massacres (1830-1900)
•Not all American Indians signed
treaties
•Many Indians protested in nonviolent
ways
•Others tribes decided to fight the U.S
government for their land
•In 1831 President Andrew Jackson
signs the Indian Removal Act