1. What were the Plains Wars?
Watch the following clip of the Sand Creek Massacre –
What happened?
What were the
motives?
What might the
consequences
be?

2. Lesson Objectives To identify and describe the key Plains Wars
To analyse the cycle of conflict and assess how it led to the end of the Indians
To evaluate the reasons why sympathy and anger towards the NA fluctuated over time

3. What were the Plains Wars?
First Fort Laramie Treaty
Little Crow’s War
Massacre at Sand Creek – 1864
Red Cloud’s war / Fetterman Massacre
Second Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
The Battle of Little Bighorn – 1876
1890 – Wounded Knee
After each ‘war’ a new treaty was drawn up and the Indians inevitably lost land

4. Your Task
Use the information from the white book to consider the key events of;
Little Crow’s War
Massacre at Sand Creek – 1864
Red Cloud’s war / Fetterman Massacre
What happened, what did the Indians lose, what did the settlers gain?

5. How might attitudes to the Plains Indians change during this time period?
See-saw effect (changed over the period)
Humanitarians (mainly in the East) - should live with the Native Americans
Exterminators (mainly the army/ settlers in West) believed they should be destroyed