1. Post Civil War Texas

2. Reconstruction Indian Removal Jim Crow Laws
A Time of Progress
A Time of Bitterness
Expansion of the railroads west
Innovations in Technology
Growth of Cities
Rise of Industry
(Cattle, Oil, Steel, etc…)
Population Growth
Indian Removal
Jim Crow Laws
Lingering anger of losing war

3. Indian Wars
Texas and the U.S.

4. Native Americans Struggles
Native Americans in North America at odds with different groups from the start

5. Native Americans In Texas
Conflict with the following groups/nations
Europeans(Spaniards)
Mexico (Both Mexican and Anglo’s)
Republic of Texas
U.S.

6. Population Moves West (Manifest Destiny)
Indian hunting grounds encroached
Indians angered and fight to defend homeland

7. Treaties Made and Broken
To keep peace, U.S. brokers many treaties with Native Americans
Most of the time they are broken
Native Americans mistrustful of White Men (U.S.)

8. Reservation System
Native Americans offered a chance to be moved to a reservation
Reservation- Land set aside by U.S. Government for Native Americans settlement
Native Americans would have to farm and depend on U.S. Government for assistance
Most Native Americans not pleased with reservation system
Some tribes refuse and resist
Plains Native Americans angered at extermination of Buffalo
Native Americans resistance intensifies

9. War in Texas
President Grant sends in William T. Sherman and Phillip Sheridan to Texas to tour forts and begin pacification (Forced Removal)
Wars with Native Americans Intensify

10. Native Americans Combatants
Main Combatants
Comanche
Apache
Kiowa

11. Native Americans at a disadvantage
Low numbers
Weapons and other supplies scarce
Fighting the full might of the U.S. Army.
Not resistant to diseases

12. Quanah Parker Son of captured American Woman (Cynthia Ann)
Last Comanche Chief
Fought U.S. Hard
Realized it was a losing battle
Assimilated in American Culture
Convinced other Indians to do so

13. Buffalo Soldiers
African American soldiers stationed out in the Texas and U.S. frontiers
Helped fight and later keep the peace with the Native Americans