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Violent relations between the White Settlers & Indigenous people have occurred during the creation of the Dawes Act.

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Assimilation: The process of a minority group being absorbed into the majority/mainstream culture (the Native Americans being forced to give up their culture and take up more American traditions/beliefs like Christianity and English)

Survey: Examining and recording the areas and features of land as to construct a map, plan, or description.

Resurvey: To survey again.

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The American Government was having trouble getting the American Indians to cooperate and move around to different reservations, as they were fighting against the government as a revolt.

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The problems of American Indians included the loss of land and some agriculture, left with little land and money.

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You will need to present your thoughts to the class tomorrow.

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If the Native Americans were given food and shelter (because they were starving and freezing to death), they may have been more willing to compromise with the US government and go off to some reservation and settle down there. Also, if they were allowed to look for the people that are currently missing, they may have also been willing to compromise.

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The conditions that Chief Joseph described that led him to stop fighting is starvation and people freezing to death and it was hard enough for him to see all the chiefs and men that were dying from the cold or hunger.

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The native Americans were dying from the cold and starvation and if the government would have given them the things needed to survive, they might have been more reasonable to a compromise.

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In the speech Chief Joseph was stating that most of his tribe is dead from freezing to death and starvation, so with food and

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The conditions that led Chief Joseph to stop the fight were conditions of defeat & loss. Such as freezing, famine and etc. These conditions shown a defeat and made the chief admit the loss.

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President Arthur wanted the Native Americans to integrate into “modern society”, meaning that they are now expected to follow eastern rules, use European technology, and conform to what the white settlers believed to be “normal”.

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We said it basically meant that they want the Native Americans to kinda change their way of life and act more like citizens of the United State. This is a bad thing because the Native Americans culture would be forgotten since they were not allowed to do things there way and so they couldn't pass down their culture to younger generations.

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"every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States who has voluntarily taken up, within said limits, his residence separate and apart from any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted the habits of civilized life,”
If they take up a separate life from their traditional culture and adopt the “civilized life” (basically become “americans” and follow the american lifestyle) then they will become a US citizen which basically wasn’t even a choice - it was really either assimilate or be killed.

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According to section 5 of the Dawes Act, the United States Government has most of the control of these land allotments.

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The president is authorized to survey and resurvey the land and to allot the land in said reservations as well as using indians land for agricultural and grazing purposes.