1. Ch. 18-3 Notes Native American Struggles
Mrs. Manley

2. Following the buffalo
Plains Indians including the Sioux lived nomadic lives
Nomadic- travelling vast distances following their main source of food
Buffalo was their main source of food. They also used buffalo hides, bones, etc.
Hunters began hunting buffalo and threatening that way of life

3. Reservations
Indian Peace Commission- recommends moving Native Americans to reservations
Reservation- tracts of land set aside for Native Americans
Okalahoma had the most “Indian Territory”
Lakota- Black Hills- gold found- Crazy Horse leads attack on govt.
Black Kettle- Sand Creek Massacre

4. Custer (govt) goes into Black Hills to look for gold.
Sitting Bull- leader of Lakota Sioux; protects Black Hills refuses to sell even a speck of dust
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse gather with other warriors at Little Bighorn River; attack Custer
Geronimo- Apache leader- last Native American surrender to the US

5. Helen Hunt Jackson- writes about the horrors the N.A. experience
Dawes Act- tries to break up reservations, end tribes, a give each N.A. a plot of land
This is an attempt to end tribal culture.
Wovoka- a prophet- Sioux- Ghost Dance a ritual that will restore the Sioux to greatness

6. Sitting Bull is killed
Sioux flee and gather at Wounded Knee.
Battle erupts; Massacre of NA
Wounded Knee marks the end of armed conflict between NA and settlers
Chief Joseph- Leader of Nez Perce refused to give up land and move to reservations.