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Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie

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Page 1: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Chapter 5Cultures Clash on the Prairie

Page 2: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Settlers Push Westward

• Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans– Sought new land, gold,

PROFIT!

• Natives believed land could not be owned

Page 3: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Settlers Pushed Westward

• Whites argued the Natives had forfeited their rights to the land b/c they hadn’t settled down– Most native tribes were

nomadic

– Why were they nomadic?

Page 4: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Settlers Pushed Westward

• How do you think natives benefited from the use of horses? (Introduced to them by the Spanish in the 1500’s)

• How do you think the settlers and natives differed in their purposes for hunting buffalo?

Page 5: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Clash

• 1834 Federal government designated the Great Plains as land set aside for Native Americans

• 1850’s Government further restricts tribes to individual areas– How do you think the

Indians reacted?

Page 6: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Massacre at Sand Creek

• U.S. Army Commanders attack a Cheyenne camp and kill 150 Indians, mostly women and children

Page 7: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Death on the Bozeman Trail

• Crazy Horse (Sioux) attacks white settlement on the Bozeman Trail– 80 U.S. soldiers killed

• Battle of the Hundred Slain OR Fetterman Massacre– Which name was given

by whites?

Page 8: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Red River War

• 1874-1875 Comanche continue to resist white expansion

• U.S. military ordered to place friendly tribes in reservations– Hang all warriors– Burn villages– Bring women and

children to camps

Page 9: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Custer’s Last Stand

• Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull kill all of Custer’s men at the Little Bighorn River– Sioux were later

defeated

– Sitting Bull forced to surrender to save his people from starvation

Page 10: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,
Page 11: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Check It Out

• Page 205 Shrinking of Native Lands

• Page 207 Importance of Buffalo

• Page 206 A Personal Voice

Page 12: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

What should be done with the Indians?

• Debate– Use the information from your notes and Chapter 5 (Especially

section 1)

• Get out a sheet of paper– Write your designated role at the top

• Mediators• Native Americans• White settlers

• Work as a group to create arguments for your side– Make each person a character

• For example: You could be the wife of a white settler or a Native American child

Page 13: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,

Government Supports Assimilation

• Native Americans would give up beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture

• 1887 Dawes Act– Aimed to

“Americanize” the Indians

• Why is this ironic?

Page 14: Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Settlers Push Westward Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans –Sought new land, gold,