The Changing World of American Indians

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The Changing World of American Indians

• Chapter 7.3

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Graphic Overview

• Responses to White Settlers
• Resistance Little Turtle and Tecumseh
• Revitalization The Prophet
• Cultural Accommodation John and Lewis Ross and
  Sequoya

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Indian Territories Invaded by the Push West

• A. By 1780, almost all Indian tribes along
• the Atlantic had been killed off by war,
  starvation, and disease.
• B. Tribes in the Northwest form a confederacy to
  avoid the same fate.

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Indian Territories Invaded by the Push West

• 3. Led by Little Turtle, (Miami Chief) this
  powerful alliance stopped the advances of white
  settlers.

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Indian Territories Invaded by the Push West

• 4. Washington sent troops to Ohio and defeat
  Little Turtle in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
  They are forced to sign the Treaty of Greenville,
  which gives up ½ of Ohio.

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Hunger for Land

• A. The U.S. government recognized Indian tribes
  as independent nations in order to obtain land.
• B. The U.S. government began signing land
  treaties with Indians using fraud and violence.

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Hunger for Land

• 3. The Treaty of Fort Wayne opened the Northwest
  Territory to white settlement. Settlers began
  clearing miles of forest which ruined the Indian
  way of life.

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Indian Resistance

• A.