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1 Chapter 18 THE AMERICAN WEST

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4 The Indians of the Great Plains Northern Plains BlackfeetCrowsSioux Southwest Eastern Plains Southwest Eastern Plains Kiowas Mandans Kiowas Mandans ComanchesArikaras ComanchesArikaras ApachesPawnees ApachesPawnees Central Plains Central PlainsArapahosCheyennes

5 The Plains Indians  Nomadic warriors, hunter-gatherers  Buffalo-based economy

6 Indian-White Relations  1862- Minnesota Uprising  1864 –Sand Creek Massacre.  1867-1868- Red Cloud’s War-Ft. Laramie Treaty  1875-76- the Great Sioux War  Economic Warfare/ destruction of the buffalo  Reservation system  Assimilation- Dawes Act (1887)  From the Ghost Dance to Wounded Knee (1890)

7 Mines, Timber, Farms and Ranches  The Mining Frontier (Bonanza #1) The West, the Iron Range  The Cattle Bonanza; the Long Drive, the growth of the Railroads  The Farming Bonanza: The opening of the Great Plains  Timber- Pacific NW- Northern MN and WI, and MI

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