1. Daily Warm Up
Name as many Native American tools/weapons, materials as you can
In what ways are Native American and “White” American culture different from one another?

2. Culture Clash on the Prairie
Westward Expansion and Native Americans

3. Eastern View of the West
Easterners know very little about the West
Believe land is controlled by “Savages”
Developed tribes exist on the “Great Plains”
Great Plains: Grassland in the West/Central US
Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee Tribes

4. The Great Plains

5. Plains Indians The Horse and Buffalo
Horses come to North America with the Spanish
Become part of Native lifestyle
Indians roam the plains to hunt Buffalo
Meat for food, skins for clothing
Bones for tools, hides for shelter

6. Products from the Buffalo

7. Westward Expansion American settlers begin to move West
Lured by gold and silver
Open land to own and farm
Natives don’t believe in land “ownership”
Land is roamed and shared, not owned

8. Government Intervenes
1830’s: US Gov’t makes GP one big reservation
Protected lands for Indians to roam and hunt
1850’: Gov’t shrinks the size of Indian lands
Indians ignore US gov’t, continue to hunt area
Natives begin to clash with settlers

9. Westward Expansion

10. Culture Clash Massacre and Sand Creek Crazy Horse attacks US Soldiers
200 warriors, 500 women and children killed
US Army responsible
150 more killed on November 29th, 1864
Crazy Horse attacks US Soldiers
Kills 80
Fetterman Massacre

11. Treaty of Fort Laramie Sioux agree to live on reservation
Plot of land along Missouri River
Sitting Bull (Sioux Leader) refuses to sign
Other Sioux leaders disagree with Sitting Bull
Battles continue throughout the plains

12. Gold Rush in the Black Hills
Gold discovered in North Dakota
Indians protest Whites in Indian Territories
Whites move in, Army protects them

13. Custer’s Last Stand George A. Custer commands the 7th Cavalry
Orders men into Little Bighorn River Valley
Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull waiting
Custer’s men are slaughtered
The “Battle of Little Bighorn

14. Battle of Little Bighorn

15. Assimilation By 1876, the Indians are defeated
Many people believe in assimilation
Assimilation: Indians give up their culture
Become part of White Society
Dawes Act (1887): Reservations are broken up
Land give to individual Natives
Rest of land sold to settlers
By the 1930’s, Natives lose 2/3 of their land

16. Wounded Knee December 28th, 1890: 7th Cavalry rounds up 350 Sioux
Take them to a camp at Wounded Knee
7th Cavalry massacres unarmed Natives

17. Wounded Knee/Sitting Bull