Telling New Stories

1. What were the two versions of the Camp Grant attack that existed among the U.S. public, and who supported each view?


The first version of the Camp Grant attack that existed among the U.S public was that a handful of U.S settlers attacked the Apache settlement near Fort Grant at the dawn of the April 30, 1871. These U.S settlers killed about one hundred and forty four Apaches (mainly women and children) within a little over a half an hour. Before they left, these settlers also took with them about twenty nine Apache children as captives.


This was the view of the Apache.


The second version however, was that of the fort's commander, Lieutenant Whitman.


Lieutenant Whitman claimed that the attack was not a form of retribution but was a violation of the U.S Army's peace agreement with the Apache near the fort, and a slaughter of innocent women and children. President Grant thought of this as purely murder.


Who supported Version Two?


many newspapers & also president grant.


2. Why was the trial that took place after the attack significant?


the trial that took place after the attack was significant because these specific Apache were under the protection of the U.S government, and they were trying to be assimilated. The government agreed to only use violence as a last resort, so naturally when the U.S settlers were easily angered, the government was disappointed in their own country's actions.


3. Whose views were absent in the accounts of this attack that were told in the United States? 


The Apaches views were absent in the accounts of this attack because no representatives of these people were present at the trial.


4. Why have Native American views been excluded from the story of U.S. expansion that is told in the United States? 


The Native American views have been excluded from the story of U.S expansion that is told in the United States because people like the Anglo Americans just made their stories more popular and dominant which after a while meant that they were the only story being told in the west. Also, Americans only wanted to portray their journey with westward expansion through history books, novels, plays, and radios and movies.  They ignored their mistakes, pretending as if they had never messed up in the first place and dismissing the fact that they were in the wrong in trying to change Native American culture and people. Lastly, if the views of the Native Americans are included in the story of U.S expansion that is told in the United States, usually they are portrayed as wild without customs or proper ways of living or in a negative, inaccurate manner.


5. What were the two parts of the U.S. government's assiimilation plan in the late nineteenth century? 


1. the government wanted to get all the indian groups onto reservations. they wanted to accomplish this because of the sole fact that policy makers believed that concentrating indian groups on these lands would help the second part of their plan.
2. erase indian cultures to replace them with american culture.


6. Give two examples of how U.S. policy makers forced Indian groups to give up their cultures? 


1. indian groups were banned from practicing their religions and cultural ceremonies.
2. indian children were taken from their homes and sent to boarding schools where school officals would cut their hair short and change their names. lastly, they forced them to speak english.


7. What effect did the railroad have on U.S. settlement of the West? 


The railroad helped the population of the U.S settlement in the West grow because more supplies were faster shipped to the west with the transcontinental railraod, which in turn could provide for more and more people.


8. How did westward expansion fuel U.S. industrialization?


Helped transport many goods to and from the west and east in a lesser time.