NATIVE AMERICANS Terrika Finnie

 Content Area: Social Studies  Grade Level: 7th  Summary: The purpose of this instructional power point is to have the students understand what took

Facts:  Go to this website to explore the history of Native Americans Native Americans are the people who were in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands when Europeans arrived. There were hundreds of Native American cultures, from coast to coast and from Yukon to the Gulf of Mexico. The Native American tribes began to diminish when white settlers began to move onto their lands. Native Americans were eventually moved onto lands called reservations.

Videos Watch these two videos The Last of the Sioux and Sitting Bull at the website provide on this slide.  Resistant to government regulated reservations, the Sioux retreated into the Black Hills until a final massacre at wounded knee. The story of the event and how the American soldiers massacred the Indians later.  American-history/native- cultures/videos American-history/native- cultures/videos  The life and impact of Sitting Bull, the leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe who led his people’s resistance against the United States.  ory.aspx?CategoryID=863 ory.aspx?CategoryID=863

Facts  The Sioux are Native American and first nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation’s many language dialects.  The territory covers some 200,000 km2 in the present day state of South Dakota and neighboring states.  Tatanka –lyotanka  A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous, of American promises to the end.  As a young man, Sitting Bull became a leader of the Strong Heart warrior society and, later, a distinguished member of the silent eater, a group concerned with tribal welfare.

Question  In the period from 1860 to 1890, which experience was shared by Native American living in Western states?  1. They maintained control of their traditional lands.  2. They benefited economically from government policy.  3. They became farmers and small business owners.  4. They were forced to live on reservations.

Correct  Yes, Beginning in the 1830’s the United States fought a series of Indian Wars designed to aid the US concept of Manifest Destiny(to aid the nation need to grow as much as possible). Many native peoples, realizing their inability to fight the advancing American armies, signed treaties that allowed the sovereignty (self rule)on parcels of land (reservations).

Question  Sitting Bull was a ___________ of the Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), who were being driven from their land in the Black?  A. American  B. Farmer  C. Medicine Man  D. Leader

Correct  Yes, Sitting Bull was a medicine man, or holyman, of the Hunkpapa Lakota(Sioux), who were being driven from their land in the Black Hills.

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