Name: _________________________________
Chapter 11: The Early Reservation Years
Section 2, “The People Kept Their Cultures Alive” (p. 215-221)
As You Read: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.
1. In what two ways did Montana’s Indian people continue to practice their religious ceremonies?
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2. Besides a lack of immunity to European diseases, what factors made Native people on reservations more
likely to contract diseases? _______________________________________________________
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3. Why was farming especially difficult for Montana’s Indians in the early reservation years?
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4. Though ranching was the best available lifestyle for many Indian people on the reservation it was not a
perfect fit. How did Indian agents make ranching clash with traditional tribal values?
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7. Why did the government order the Crow and Northern Cheyenne to reduce the number of their horses and
what actions did they take in 1923 to enforce the order? ___________________________________
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8. The Dawes Act had several purposes. The first was to break up tribes from a group that works together and
divide them into individuals that worked for themselves. The act would also reduce the cost of running the
reservations and provide more land for white settlers. What was the final purpose of the Dawes Act?
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Key Terms and People: Write the key term or person that matches the following definitions.
9. Two diseases that were especially out of control on the reservation were ___________________________,
which is an infectious and deadly lung disease, and _____________________________, which is a
contagious eye disease that causes blindness.
10. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated that tribes had treaty rights to their traditional water sources
became known as the _____________________________________________________.
11. A(n) ___________________________________ was a reservation headquarters.
12. In 1914 the agent of the _______________________________________ reservation confiscated between
20,000 - 30,000 cattle owned by individual Indian ranchers. He mismanaged the herd so badly that within a
few years there were only 4,000 cattle left.
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Name: _________________________________
13. In 1887 the government passed the Dawes Act, also called the _________________________________.
The law _________________________________, or divided up, reservations into individual plots of land
large enough to support a small family.
14. Allotted lands were held in _____________________________ by the U.S. government for 25 years. After
that the land could be sold.
15. After each Indian family received their plot of land, the extra reservation land was declared
_____________________________, or extra. Most of this extra land was sold to white settlers.
16. _____________________________ was the Salish chief who fought the allotment of the Flathead
Reservation. When he died in 1910 the government announced it would begin allotting the reservation.