Before the Founding of Lawton
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Teaching Materials
Receiving Rations at Fort Sill (Provenance: Museum of the Great Plains, Lanham Collection, #83-P27:301) |
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first ten years of reservation life were hard on all the tribes.
The lives of the native peoples changed in many ways when they moved from
the plains to the reservations. The Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes
had special problems. They caught epidemic diseases like malaria,
measles, and smallpox very easily.
The U. S. would not let the natives hunt on their own. So the natives thought it was only fair that the U.S. give them food. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agreed. Government agencies distributed food to native families. |
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The BIA felt that the tribes should handle their own people. So the Indian Police were formed. These changes altered the way the tribes used to govern themselves. More and more power was taken away from the band leaders. |
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