Native Americans and Westward Expansion

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Native Americans and Westward Expansion

• Coach Presnell
• US History

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Todays Introduction

• Read the news article about present day relations
  between the US Government and Native American
  Tribes

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Admin Issues

• Monday, meet in the Achievement Center between
  Lower 3 and 4
• Take home quiz
• One paragraph essay on the following question
• How did westward expansion effect Native
  Americans?
• Four square organizer on the following prompt
• Explain the areas, technology and hardships faced
  by Great Plains farmers, Miners and Ranchers
  during westward expansion.
• Turn in study guide Monday
• Worksheets
• Reflective Writing

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Objectives for Today

• After todays lesson, the student should be able
  to
• Understand the political issues that affected
  Native Americans
• Investigate the dynamics between settlers and
  Native Americans
• Identify the events and impact of western
  movement and Indian Wars on Native Americans

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The Black Hills
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Check on Learning

• What were annuities?
• What happened at Fettermans Massacre?
• Explain the Sand Creek Massacre.
• What was the result of the Battle at Little Big
  Horn?
• Why did Wounded Knee occur?
• What was important about the Dawes Act and
  assimilation?

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Native Americans

• Struggles of the Plains Indians
• THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST DRAMATICALLY ALTERED
  THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE PLAINS INDIANS
• Farmers, hunters and nomads versus environmental
  exploitation.

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Native Americans

• The Dakota Sioux Uprising
• 1862, Annuities and relocation
• Little Crow and the uprising
• 38 sentenced to death
• Native Americans go on the run

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Native Americans

• Red Clouds War
• Second Sioux tribe, Lakota in Montana
• Red Cloud, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
• Fettermans Massacre on Bozeman Trail
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Native Americans

• Sand Creek Massacre
• Cheyenne and Arapahos Colorado land invaded by
  gold miners
• Cheyenne fight fiercely against settlers
• Chief Black Kettle decides to negotiate peace
  deal, camps at Sand Creek to await negotiations
• History unsure of exactly what happened, but 14
  soldiers killed, up to 600 Cheyenne men, women
  and children killed.

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Native Americans

• A Doomed Plan for Peace
• Indian Peace Commission, 1867
• Reservations in North America
• Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty

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Native Americans

• The Last Native American Wars
• SETTLERS AND NATIVE AMERICANS FOUGHT FOR LAND AND
  CULTURAL TRADITIONS.
• 1870s, Native Americans leave reservations and
  the disappearance of the Buffalo

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Native Americans

• Battle of the Little Bighorn
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• George Custer responds to Lakotas violation of
  treaties
• Custers failed attack
• Encourages anti-Native American sentiment

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Native Americans

• Tragedy at Wounded Knee
• 1890, Ghost Dance outlawed
• Sitting Bull killed when Law Enforcement tries to
  arrest him
• December 1890, final battle at Wounded Knee Creek
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Native Americans

• Dawes Act
• Attempts to assimilate Native Americans
• Encourage farming and ranching
• Native Americans have little patience for this
  approach, but becomes the official government
  stance in 1887 with Dawes Act
• Land allotments have little use

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Check on Learning

• What were annuities?
• What happened at Fettermans Massacre?
• Explain the Sand Creek Massacre.
• What was the result of the Battle at Little Big
  Horn?
• Why did Wounded Knee occur?
• What was important about the Dawes Act and
  assimilation?

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Native Americans

• Reflective Writing
• Answer the following two questions using the
  lessons you have learned over the last three days
  about westward expansion
• Do you think Native Americans were treated fairly
  during westward expansion? Why or why not?
• If you were a settler going west, what would be
  your plan of action? Why?