The 1867 Peace Commission was an attempt to bring peace to western lands by creating reservations for Indian tribes, enabling white settlers to claim former Indian territories and railroads to continue to lay tracks toward the Pacific, thus fulfilling the doctrine of Manifest Destiny.
Q. What did the Indian Peace Commission propose?
What did the Indian Peace Commission of 1867 propose? It proposed the creation of two large reservations on the Plains, one for the Sioux and another for southern Plain tribes. The federal government would then run the reservations.
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- Q. What did the Indian Peace Commission propose?
- Q. Why did many Native Americans leave their reservations?
- Q. What is peace commission?
- Q. What was the conclusion of the United States Indian Peace Commission?
- Q. What animal was central to Native American life on the Great Plains?
- Q. What led to the destruction of the buffalo?
- Q. What were the areas set aside by the US government for the exclusive use of Native American?
- Q. What were Native American groups most threatened by?
- Q. What Native American tribes lived in the West?
Q. Why did many Native Americans leave their reservations?
Many people leave the reservations for urban areas in search of employment and improved living conditions. The Indian reservation system was originally established as a result of the greed and prejudice of early American settlers and the federal government.
Q. What is peace commission?
A peace commission is an organization that operates at a local, regional, or national level within a country to reduce, counter, or prevent conflict.
Q. What was the conclusion of the United States Indian Peace Commission?
What was the conclusion of the United States Indian Peace Commission? That lasting peace would only come if Native Americans settled on farms and adapted to white civilization.
Q. What animal was central to Native American life on the Great Plains?
buffalo
Q. What led to the destruction of the buffalo?
During that period a small group of ranchers gathered parts of the remaining herds and saved the species from extinction. The buffalo were affected by natural predation from wolves and coyotes, competition for grazing by horses, disease brought by cattle, fires, and a long drought from 1845 to the 1860s.
Q. What were the areas set aside by the US government for the exclusive use of Native American?
What were the areas set aside by the U.S. government for the exclusive use of Native Americans? Reservations.
Q. What were Native American groups most threatened by?
They were threatened by diseases, poverty, land seizure and deportation.
Q. What Native American tribes lived in the West?
Geographic and temporal setting: the diverse West Over one hundred federally-recognized tribes lived in modern California. The Great Basin—the vast expanse of land between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas—was home to the Mono, Paiute, Bannock, Shoshone, Ute, and Gosiute peoples, among others.
