1. What strategies did Native Americans adopt to respond to declining populations and a loss of land?
2. What was President Grant’s “Peace Policy”? In what ways was it a departure from previous policy? How did it change thinking about the place of Indians in American society? How did it influence subsequent policies towards Native Americans?
3. In two Treaties of Fort Laramie, 1851 and 1868, the United States agreed that the Black Hills belonged to the Sioux. Why, then, have the Black Hills repeatedly been a great source of contention and a call to war between the “Sioux” and the United States????? How did the Indians defend the Black Hills?
https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/
https://public.csusm.edu/nadp/
https://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/index.html
https://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dakota.html