Native American Struggles

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Native American Struggles

• The Battle for the West

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Causes of White Settlement

• Gold Rushes
• Homestead Act 1863
• Transcontinental RR
• Union Pacific Central Pacific
• Promontory Point, Utah
• 1869
• The Golden Spike

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• By 1860s Native Americans had been pushed beyond
  the Mississippi
• As white settlers moved west, NAs were further
  isolated
• U.S. Govt adopts Reservation Policy
• The Indian Wars begin

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Plains Indians

• Lived Nomadic Life
• Followed Buffalo Herds
• Whites killed Buffalo as they moved West

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Buffalo Bill Cody
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New Indian Policy

• Started in late 1860s
• Native Americans moved to Reservations
• Poor land
• Government Trickery
• Many Native Americans resisted

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Butchery on Both Sides

• Indians raided white settlements
• U.S. Army Troops slaughtered entire villages
• Indians won some battles but were outnumbered
  outgunned

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Battle of Little Big Horn

• 1876
• General George Armstrong Custer
• Sitting Bull
• Sioux tribe defeats Custer

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Apache Wars

• Apache tribe of the South West Desert
• 10 year uprising led by Geronimo
• US troops chased him all over desert
• Last Native American to surrender

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The Genocide Continues

• Dawes Act of 1887
• Native Americans stripped of culture
• Forced to accept white ways
• Reservations broken up

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Wounded Knee

• Ghost Dance to regain Sioux greatness
• Police killed Sitting Bull while trying to arrest
  him
• Sioux fled in fear
• 150 Sioux 25 soldiers killed near Wounded Knee
  Creek

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The Struggle Continues