History 162: Lectures 13 & 14

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



History 162: Lectures 13 and 14
CUSTOM'S LAST STAND?
VANQUISHED BUT UNVANISHED INDIANS

  1. Wounded Knee and the Completion of American Conquest
    1. Trails of Broken Treaties
    2. Wars of Expansion and Extermination
      1. Indian Advantages
      2. Divide and Conquer (Again)
      3. Slaughtering Buffalo
      4. Technology Becomes Decisive
      5. The Irony of "Buffalo Soldiers"
    3. From the Little Bighorn (1876) to Wounded Knee (1890)

  2. The Vanishing Indian and Their So-Called Friends
    1. Saving Indians from Themselves
    2. The Abolitionist Connection
    3. Allotment: The Dawes Act (1887)

  3. Federal Policy: The Twentieth-Century Pendulum
    1. With Friends Like These: Land Losses Under Allotment
    2. John Collier and the Indian New Deal
    3. Termination and Relocation
    4. Self-Determination and New Federalism

  4. Indians in Twentieth-Century America
    1. Demographic Revival
    2. The Question of Indian Identity
    3. Urbanization
    4. Indian Activism
      1. The American Indian Movement: Wounded Knee II
      2. The Indian Claims Commission Act (1946)
    5. Indian Country Today

Visuals


Wars for the West


Indian Land Cessions in the U.S. by Region/Date


Indian Activism


Urban Indian Centers