Bell Ringer. Welcome!!• Grab a book and the white definitions

paper from the back table and get to work! We have 20 new vocabulary words to learn! You have 20 minutes! Keep your book on your desk when you’re done and please put your name on your vocabulary sheet and hold onto it!

Major Native American Conflicts

Native People Fight Back• President Abraham

Lincoln 1861• Dealing with Civil War

and Native American problems in the West• Established Uintah

Valley Reservation for Utes.• “Unsuitable for farming…

[useless] except for nomadic hunting grounds for Indians.”

Bear River Massacre 1863

• Problems on the Western Trails

• Travelers shot Shoshone Indians out of fright; Some Indians raided goods and killed travelers.

• Colonel Patrick Connor: Found out there was a Shoshone Raid on some traveling gold miners.

• Went to a Shoshone winter camp and slaughtered 300 Shoshone Indians and burned down their teepees.

Black Hawk War 1865-1868

• Began raiding Mormon and Pioneer settlements and attacked settlers.

• Longest and most destructive conflict in Utah Territory

• About even number of people killed. • Eventually Black Hawk signed a peace treaty

Turn to Pg 173 in Text book

• Read the different Perspectives and then we will discuss as a class the issues presented