Continuity and Change
1880-1910
Great Sioux War 1876-7:
Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer’s Last Stand
Black Hills War
1890 Massacre at
Wounded Knee
Minor skirmishes
continued into 1920s
Dawes Act 1887
Curtis Act 1898
Spanish American War
1898:
Bert Holderman
(Cherokee) Roosevelt’s
cook
Philippine-American
War 1899-1902:
Victor M. Locke
(Choctaw)
1908-1913 Wanamaker
Expedition of Citizenship
1907-1930 Edward
Curtis photography
1878-1923 Hampton
Institute in Hampton, VA
1879: Carlisle Indian
Industrial Training
School
1900: 20,000 Indian
students in government
schools
1900-7 Dawes
Commission
Burke 1906
1903 Lone Wolf v.
Hitchcock
1907 Oklahoma
becomes a state
Inauguration of Teddy
Roosevelt March 5,
1905 delegation of
Indians march
Wild West Shows
Buffalo Dance (1894)
from Buffalo Bill's
Wild West show
Thomas Edison's
Buffalo Bill Wild West
Show
Sports stars
John Levi & Red Grange All American
football 1923
Jim Thorpe (Sauk-Fox, OK) Carlisle
1912 played All American against
Army w/ Dwight Eisenhower
1912: Stockholm Olympics 2 gold
medals
pro football and baseball 1920s
Louis Tewanima (Hopi, Carlisle)
1908 and 1912 Olympics, Track
Charles Bender (Ojibwe, Carlisle)
Philadelphia baseball 1903-17
John Meyers (Cahuilla) NY Giants &
Brooklyn Dodgers 1908-18
3. Movies
The Mended Lute 1909
Luther Standing Bear
(Sioux) acted in Tom Ince
films 1910
The Indian Brothers 1911
Fighting Blood 1911
1913 The Battle At
Elderbush Gulch