American Indian Boarding Schools History
U.S. History Question (multiple choice)?
Severalty the Dawes Act of 1887: all U.S. citizens a.made Indians B.established new reserves for the tribes of the northern plains. C.acknowledged failure of the reservation system. D.established refuge for bison nearly disappear. E.forced Indian children to attend state-run boarding schools. That's AP U.S. HISTORY, and I find this question delicate.
Correct answer: C. acknowledged the failure of the reservation system. The Dawes Act did not establish new booking establish shelters bison or force Indian children to go to boarding schools run by the state, even if it was consistent with education Indians forced to board schools. It does not provide eventual citizenship, but only for participating Indians who have completed the period award 25 years, and not for "all Indians." The Dawes Act was assimilationist. See the following text at the source below. "The Act Dawes had two main objectives. The first was to "civilize" indigenous peoples. Those sympathetic to Indians, mostly Eastern philanthropists, said that the reservation system, in which most tribes kept their communal lands, which prevented the economic and cultural development of indigenous peoples. In the late nineteenth century economies, most tribes have been in dire straits, with indigenous people living in poverty abject. The Friends of the Indians, an influential group of philanthropists and reformers in the Northeast, believes that if the Indians have received individual plots of land to cultivate, they grow and integrate into the American economy and culture, the farmers of the middle class. In the report of the Secretary Interior of 1886, Senator Dawes said he wanted the government to: put [the Indians] on its own ground, provide a small house, with a plow, and a rake, and show him how to get to work to use them …. The only way [to civilize the Indians] is to drive it in the sun, and he say that the sun is for, and the rain comes for, and when to put his seed in the ground. The assignment forced to tribal lands was consistent with other government policies of assimilation of indigenous peoples in American society, including education of Indian children forced into residential schools outside the reserve and the removal of indigenous religions, languages and cultural practices … "
Indian Boarding Schools – Native American Cherokee Carlisle
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