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Title: The Plains Indians Wars


1
The Plains Indians Wars
  • Mr. Bach
  • Hudson High School
  • Accelerated U.S. History

2
Antebellum Relations
  • Natives had been pushed westward to the Great
    American Desert.
  • Indian Territory (Oklahoma)

3
So What Changes?
4
Cultural Conflict
  • White Culture
  • Monotheistic (Christians)
  • Stewards of the Earth
  • Land as property
  • Land can be transformed
  • Hunting for sport
  • Farming
  • Native Culture
  • Polytheistic (Natural World)
  • One with the Earth
  • Communal Land
  • Adapt to land
  • Hunt to sustain life (Hunter-Gatherers)

5
Sparking the Plains Wars
  • Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

Kill and Scalp All, Big and Little!
6
Sparking the Plains Wars
  • Fetterman Massacre (1866)

Sioux Chief Red Cloud
7
U.S. Battle Plan
  • Indians must
  • Confine themselves to reservations
  • Take up farming
  • Learn white ways
  • War Strategy
  • Exterminate buffalo as a food source
  • Overwhelm Indians with power of U.S. military
  • Hidden weapon (disease).

Or . . . .
8
Almost to Extinction
9
Southern Plains Wars
  • Red River War (1874-75)
  • Kiowas and Comanches

10
Northern Plains War
  • Black Hills Gold!
  • Sioux Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull unite
    to expel miners.

11
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Last Sioux Victory American People Cry
Revenge!
12
Ghost Dance
  • To restore the land and their way of life

13
Wounded Knee Massacre
  • Over 100 men, women, and children are buried in a
    mass grave.

14
Assimilation
  • Become the white man

15
Helen Hunt Jackson
  • A Century of Dishonor

16
Become Like the White Man?
  • Ira Hayes

17
Legacy of the Indian Wars
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