Conflict with Native Americans

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Conflict with Native Americans

• Wednesday January 10, 2007

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Imagine

• Have you ever felt like you were getting bullied
  for being different?
• Did these bullies think they were better then
  you for some reason?
• How did this make you feel? Why?

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Great Plains Indians

• Great Plains Indians Tribes living between
  Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains that lived
  off the buffalo.

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Government Policy

• Indian Problem Name given by easterners toward
  Native Americans who blocked land for mining,
  ranching, and farming.

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Treaties

• At first the U.S. government negotiated treaties
  with the Native Americans giving them
  reservations.
• Reservations Federal lands set aside for
  Indians.

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Clashes

• Settlers ignore reservations and steal land from
  the Native Americans.
• I have taken the white man by the hand, thinking
  him to be a friend, but he is not a friend
  government has deceived us Kicking Bird 1873
  Kiowa Tribe

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Indian/American Battles
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The Sand Creek Massacre, 1864

• Sand Creek Massacre During peace treaty
  American colonel John Chivington surprised
  Cheyenne tribe and killed 500 Indians (mostly
  women and children).
• The next year the Cheyenne agreed to move to
  reservations.

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General Armstrong Custer1830 - 1876
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Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876

• Battle of Little Bighorn Custer's Last Stand
  Great Indian victory 2000 Sioux killed Custers
  army of 200 men in less then an hour.

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Sitting Bull
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Ghost Dance

• Ghost Dance A ritual in which Native Americans
  joined hands and whirled in a circle.

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Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890

• Fearing the ghost dance police officers arrest
  and kill Sioux chief Sitting Bull.
• Massacre of Wounded Knee While Sitting Bulls
  followers were being disarmed soldiers open fire
  killing 200 Sioux.

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Assimilation

• Assimilation Process by which one society
  becomes a part of another, more dominant society
  by adopting its culture.

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Boomers and Sooners

• Boomers Settler who staked claims on old Indian
  land
• Sooners People who sneaked past the government
  and claimed lands prior to Boomers.

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Ghostly Reflections.

• Nothing Lives long. Only the earth and the
  mountains. unknown Cheyenne killed at Sand
  Creek 1864

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The END