Indian Policy: Reservation In The United States

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Indian Policy

Reservations:

As the United States was growing, more room for white settlement was needed. The American Indians were taken off of their land and forced to live on reservations. The Indians moved when they were told to move and lived how they were told to live. Many times, when thinking about Indians, you think of a very spiritual people, and this was true. Many of the Indians thought that leaving their homelands was dishonoring the Gods and disobeying set traditions. The reservations were not an ideal place to live, many times, they were overstuffed and the people went underfed. No land to farm on and no way to create a better living environment for themselves, they grew desperate to leave.

End of the Buffalo:

In the 1890s, …show more content…
This meant that the Indian people were forced into confined living spaces and relocated at random (or when the US Government thought necessary.) Constantly having the fear of not enough food, or too little shelter, Sitting Bull had enough! Sitting Bull became a leader and lead THOUSANDS of American Indians out of the reservation, in an attempt to “resist relocation” and live how they wanted. Though they were in constant pursuit by the US military, it wasn’t until 1890 that they were captured. The Indians began a tradition known as the “Ghost Dance” The Ghost dance was a five day religious ceremony meant to cleanse the Indians and “prepare them for salvation” The US military was very against the Ghost Dance because they believed it to be a way for the Indians to come together and plot against them. It was during one of theses ceremonies that the Battle of Wounded Knee happened. Some even call it the wounded knee massacre due to the intensity of the deaths and how it happened. The Military interrupted the ghost dance in an attempt to force the American Indians to surrender all of their weapons, during this time, Sitting Bull was being arrested because they saw him as a troublemaker and a threat (and believed him to be the leader of a revolt.) Historians are not quite certain what happened, but things went horribly wrong and Sitting Bull was killed in the process. This began a massive breakout between the Indians and US Military. This tragedy caused 25 US military soldiers’ deaths and over 200 Indians were
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