Indian Video Notes

1492

· Colombus came to new world

· New route to India

· Therefore Indians

· Enslaved indians

· Tortured and killed

1539

· Hernando Desoto

· Looking for gold

· Murder torture and terror to find gold

· Brought war dogs to assure cooperation

· Brought small pox to new world

1607

· Jamestown settlement

· People escaping religious prosecution

1620

· Plymouth settlement

· Thanksgiving with Indians and English

· New Americans moved Indians aside

· No matter how much land the english wanted more

1636 – Pequot War (Massachusetts) – Indians could not hold up. 450 slaughtered.

· First war fought with Indians in New England

· Burned in village

· First war of many

Indian Removal Act – 1830

· Government pressure by the whites

· Law: required Indians to give up land and move to less valuable land

· Under Indian removal Act

· Tribes in east moved to Oklahoma

· Convinced Indians it would be better than them

Trail of Tears

· 1848 - Soldiers brought in and forced Indians to march

· 4,000 Cherokees died

· "Exile"

Osceola

· Semiole chief

· Captured and followers surrendered

· Escaped to the everglades

Buffalo

· Migration of buffalo interfered by trains

· Killed for hides and food

· Free guns for hunters of buffalo

· Tourists shot buffalo from trains as went by

Treaties of Fort Laramie - 1851 & 1868

· US met with plains tribes

· Made reservations - land set aside for Indians

· Peace did not last from treaty

· Led to raids of the people

Minnesota Massacre

· James Carrolton ordered to kill ALL apache men

· Apache and others fled to safe zones

· Killed many Indians