The Progressive Era by Bridget Staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf By Bridget Staggs and Garret Silver en-us 2017-12-06 16:52:30 UTC 2025-11-02 18:02:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Works Cited bridget_staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/213800138 1)Holm, Tom. “The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era.” American Indian Studies, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences , 2005. Web. 9 December 2017.

2)“Progressive & Populist Impact on Native Americans.” The Progressive Era, WordPress, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 9 December 2017.

3) Secondary Source:
Watras, Joseph. “Progressive Education and Native American Schools, 1929-1950.”  Educational Foundations, 2014. Web. 9 December 2017. ]]> 2017-12-06 16:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/213800138 Summary bridget_staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/213802324 The Progressive Era was a social movement during 1890-1920 where the government was rejecting Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest) and blending in lower classes with the mainstream society. The Native Americans were being assimilated into the white culture, having to cut their hair, have proper school education, and be incorporated into white culture; however, they refused to be forced into the white culture since they did not want to abandon their own. ]]> 2017-12-06 17:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/213802324 "The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era" bridget_staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/214748567 Tom Holm explains that during the Progressive Era, the United States government thought that they could get rid of the entire Native American culture or population. Federal officials believed that their policies would assimilate Native Americans into white culture within one or two generations. The government gave land to Native Americans for the purpose of turning them into farmers, and the children were sent to boarding schools to learn the English language, Christianity, and the ways of the white people. Through time, since there was such resistance of the Native Americans to give up their culture, the government's assimilation policy eventually collapsed, and influenced the recognition of the rights of Native American tribes.
Works Cited:
Holm, Tom. “The Great Confusion in
Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era.” American Indian Studies, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences , 2005. Web. 9 December 2017. https://ais.arizona.edu/great-confusion-indian-affairs-native-americans-and-whites-progressive-era.  ]]> 2017-12-09 22:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/214748567 "Progressive & Populist Impact on Native Americans" bridget_staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/214748642 Populists and Progressives had an extremely negative impact on Native Americans during the Progressive Era. The Progressives put the Dawes Act in place, which allowed the government to split up land for individual families and make them pay to stay on the land, and the Populists put the Homestead Act in place, which caused conflicts with the Native Americans and made them fight for their land or else it would be taken away. The Battle of Wounded Knee and the Sand Creek Massacre were results of Native Americans not willing to give up their land. Also, the Populists were in support of railroads, which went across Native American territory and killed off the buffalo population, making the Indians depend on a different resource for food and hide. The Populists and Progressives severely impacted the Native American culture for generations and tried their best to get rid of their culture through any ways possible.
Works Cited:
“Progressive & Populist Impact on Native Americans.” The Progressive Era, WordPress, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 9 December 2017. hunterwsams.wordpress.com/progressive-populist-impact-on-native-americans/.]]> 2017-12-09 22:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/214748642 "Progressive Education and Native American Schools, 1929-1950" (Secondary Source) bridget_staggs https://padlet.com/bridget_staggs/mzcmejag1rhf/wish/214748670 Joseph Watras explains how, from about 1879-1930, the teachers in American schools used education as a way to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society. Americans in education sent many of these native american children to boarding schools, both outside of reservations and on reservations. These schools, although all focused on the main task of assimilating native american students to the mainstream society, were all slightly different in their academic focus. The main system of education on these schools was called Progressive education, which was very far from the traditional form of education; it focused mostly on learning from experience, problem solving, and critical thinking. After recognizing that this new education system, as well as the confinement of Native Americans on these reservations was harmful to the majority of them, the leaders in education began to praise and support the Dawes Act. The Federal Government as a whole imposed many policies that caused the general society to suffer. Around 1944, the President instilled the Indian New Deal, which significantly changed the status of Native Americans by decreasing the Federal Government’s control, and increasing their responsibility. 
Throughout this source, it explains how the Native American children didn’t have much of a say in the form of education they were given because it was so highly controlled by the Federal Government. White society was under the impression that inflicting their policy of progressive education would better assimilate Native Americans into their society, but in reality it brought much trouble and harm to them. The native americans within this society proved the point that even with a strong scientific and political implementation of a policy and new culture onto a whole group of people, it will not change that group’s original culture; it will scientifically serve the original culture, despite the wishes of those doing the implementation. 
Works Cited:
Watras, Joseph. “Progressive Education and Native American Schools, 1929-1950.”  Educational Foundations, 2014. Web. 9 December 2017. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ739896.pdf.
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