Native Americans - Gilded Age and New Deal

when was the Dawes Plan?

1887

how much farmland or grazing pasture would a Native American family receive in the Dawes Plan?

160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing pasture

in 1887 there was 150 million acres of reservation land, by 1900 how much was there?

just 78 acres

by 1932, what fraction of Native American land had white settlers acquired?

two-thirds

how much money was granted by Congress for Indian farming in 1888?

just $30,000

Name two matriarchal Native American tribes

Iroquois and Cherokee

during the 1870s how many military engagements between Indians and Settlers were there?

1065

how many Indians were publicly executed after the Minnesota massacre?

over 300, 38 from a single scaffold

When was the Battle of Little Big Horn?

1876

in 1865 how many buffalo were there compared to 1883?

13 million to just 200

What was the Major Crimes Act 1885?

Indians were now punishable by federal law, no longer under the authority of the tribe

by the end of the century, how many Native Americans attended a federal school?

over 20,000

Name some examples of White intellectuals who were genuinely committed for positive reform

Wendell Philips, William Lloyd Garrison, Helen Hunt Jackson

When was the Wheeler-Howard Act?

1934

out of the 240 tribes how many rejected the Indian Reorganisation act?

75

how many $s a year did the government use to rebuy allotted land?

$2 million p.a.

roughly how many Native Americans were employed through the CCC?

85,000