2. The “Wild” West Indians

4. Methods of Displacement 1. Reservations

5. Dawes Severalty Act, 1887

6. To assimilate Native Americans Break up tribes and reservations Give land directly to Native American individuals and families Indians accepting gave up tribal ways to achieve land deed and U.S. citizenship (after 25 years). Effect: reduced size of Indian land and population; made Indians poor.

7. Present-day Indian reservations

8. Before Carlisle Indian School, PA. 2. Forced Assimilation through “education”

9. After

10. 3. Treaties

11. 4. Settlement Oklahoma, 1889

12. 5. Destruction of economy: Buffalo Charles Russell

17. 6. Armed Conflict

18. The Indian Wars: Three Major Events

19. 1. Battle of the Little Bighorn June 25, 1876

20. Ft. Laramie Treaty

23. General George Armstrong Custer

25. Custer leading Black Hills expedition, 1874

26. Sitting Bull Tatanka Yotanka

27. Crazy Horse

32. Death of Crazy Horse

33. Sitting Bull went on to perform with Buffalo Bill

34. Custer became an American Legend

35. 2. Flight of the Nez Perce

36. Chief Joseph

39. Nelson A. Miles Oliver O. Howard Nelson A. Miles

40. My people are tired… From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

41. 3. Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890

42. Wovoka

43. Ghost Dance

45. Big Foot and his people before the “battle”

46. Buffalo Bill Capt. Baldwin Nelson Miles

52. 1973 A I M American Indian Movement

56. Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux, on the “Wild West” We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.