1. US Government Relations with Indians Aim - How did the movement west help to end the Native American way of life? Broken Promises
U.S. government makes peace treaties with Indian natives
Miners, ranchers, and railroads begin moving into native Indian lands
settlers ask government for protection and help from Indian threats
government builds forts in frontier lands

2. The Fort Laramie Treaty (1867)
Indians were forced to live on Reservations
takes the Indian Removal Acts (7th grade) a bit further
U.S. promises to give assistance, food, and guarantees of land claims
no assistance is ever given, other than diseased blankets

3. End of the Bison (Buffalo)
American government sponsored Buffalo Hunts (exterminations)
professional sport hunters
Buffalo Soldiers
African-American soldiers given the less glamorous job of killing Buffalo
Diminishing way of life for Plains Indians – no Buffalo, no Indians!

4. Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Little Big Horn, South Dakota - General George Custer and US troops are sent here to protect settlers moving into Sioux Indian land, but is massacred by the Sioux and Cheyenne. (led by Chief Sitting Bull and the warrior known as Crazy Horse)

5. Native American Resistance & Tragedy
Apache Wars - a series of battle between the US and Apache Indians led by Geronimo
Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota – The Sioux were rounded up on their reservation and 300 men, women and children were slaughtered for performing a traditional Sioux “Ghost Dance”

6. Dawes Act
Reformers on both sides begin to push the U.S. government for a change in policy
Dawes Act (1887) – government wanted Native Americans to give up their culture and live like the White Man on U.S. land