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indians will take up farming
agree to live separate and apart from their tribe of origin and take up farming on a quarter section or less of land, assimilate
Editorials: Yankton and Dakotaian (After 1874)
will use the resources, those who make money from products of the land
discover valued resources
lakota perspective: was he authorized, or in violation of the treaty-- a source of conflict
those who are willing to mine and log can lay claim to te land
occupants can be removed, ancestral claims extinguished
extiguishing the claim to the land is equivalent to"opening"
buffalo provide a supply chain for troops
within other geographic boundaries, to said indian nations, only for the purposes of hunting buffalo
only for as long as the buffalo exist there
buffalo are the only thing holding US to treaty obligations to hunting ground where buffalo are present
1881 General Sheridan's letter, 1881
a continuation of his scorched earth strategy from Civil War
killed off the buffalo and the indian
Spotted Tail and RedCloud (others) signed a treaty that said, within certain geographic boundaries, the land was for the absolute use and occupation of those indian nations named by the treaty.
right to pass only by authorization
who remain peaceful
resided there
would offer certain privileges and remain peaceful
can establish military posts and roads
seasonal migration, hunter gatherer, pantheistic
industrial, monotheistic, agricultural, land as property,
Sheridan V Legislature, Congress
Red Cloud v Crazy Horse
homesteads
military posts
seasoinal migration routes, hunting rights
Bozeman trail
railroads
for Americans: hides for trade; supply chain for troops; hazard for railroads; treaty obligation to protect access to hunting grounds.
for Lakota, eocnomic self-sufficiency; trade, food, shelter.
leadership
tribal/ democratic
leaders appointed by acclaimation
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull
Lakota way of life
reservations were prisons
schools imposed painful accomodation, but not assimilation, attempted cultural annihilation, language death
had an ancestral claim based on occupancy
buffalo, food, shelter