Class Discussion - Tuesday 3/31

Prisoner of war camps, now called reservation lands

Lakota’s camp - POW camp 334

1824 - Bureau of Indian Affairs - mission statement: have native people assimilate; wasn’t changed until 2021

1851 - Laramie Treaty marking boundaries of Lakota land, recognized the land as sovereign; later was overwritten, disregarded

Homestead act

1863 - mass execution of natives, ordered by Lincoln

Second Laramie Treaty - prohibited white people from taking over the black hills, native land

Indian appropriation act - makes all Indians POWs

End of treaties

Gold found in Black hills, 1875, Lakota war

1877 - new agreement Sell or Starve, sign paper or no food for tribe

1887 - Dawes Act, Indian lands taken and redistributed; subdivided the indians, gave whites more land

1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre - US army surrounded and massacred Sioux camp, most medals of honor given for a single “battle” - end of Indian Wars

A people’s dream died there and it was a beautiful dream

1900 - Indian population dropped to less than 250,000 (highest was originally 8 million)

2010 - Indians forced to live in rotting homes falling apart, black mold, no electricity, little-to-no funding in reservations

Last chapter of genocide - denial, removal of oppressor from their own actions