USING MACHINE GUNS, UNITED STATES SOLDIERS KILLED MORE THAN 300 STARVING LAKOTA MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN ATA. SAND CREEK. C. WOUNDED KNEE.B. SAN CARLOS. D. GHOST DANCE.

Which two Native American nations lived as farmers and hunters?

a. Arapaho and Apache c. Sioux and Comanche

b. Omaha and Osage d. Cheyenne and Apache

Great Plains

For Native For Native AmericansAmericans

Some like

Farmers

Hunters

were

MOST

NOMADICHad no permanent place to call home; wandered from place to place, traveling long distances following the buffalo.

Threats to the Buffalo

Railroad companies hired people to kill buffalo to feed to the RR workers.Didn’t want big herds of them blocking the tracks.

As more whites settled the Plains, the government adopted a new Indian policy.Indian Peace Commission

Federal government recommended:

Moving Native Americans to RESERVATIONS.Tracts of land set aside for them.

Oklahoma

Poor land

Government failed to deliver promised food and supplies.

When they did, it was poor quality.

Minnesota

MINNESOTA TERRITORY uprising:

1862- Sioux warriors led by Red Cloud- burned and looted white settlers homes. (Hundreds died.)

Army sent patrols who came in contact with the Lakota Tribe hunting grounds in the Black Hills region.

In Colorado, where their were many miners, Cheyenne and Arapaho began raiding wagons, burning ranches and stealing cattle. Estimated 200 settlers killed.

Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahos staged a series of attacks from 1865 to 1867.

The bloodiest incident occurred on December 21, 1866.

Sioux military leader, Crazy Horse, acted as a decoy and lead troops into a deadly trap, tricking a commander into sending 80 soldiers in pursuit. Hundreds of warriors attacked, killing them all. FETTERMAN MASSACRE

Chief Black Kettle brought several hundred Cheyenne to negotiate a peace deal- camping at Sand Creek.

Col. John Chivington led an attack on the unsuspecting Cheyenne.

1868 Peace Treaty –

Tensions remained and fighting erupted within the next few years.

“No white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy” or even “to pass through” these hills.GOLD!

Lt. Colonel George Custer led a group into the Black Hills Region to confirm that there was gold.

Government offered to buy the Government offered to buy the land.land.

SIOUX PROTESTEDSIOUX PROTESTEDLeader of

Lakota Sioux

Sitting Bull refused.

“I do not want to sell any land. Not even this much.” (Holding a pinch of dust.)

Sitting Bull gathered Sioux and Cheyenne warriors along the Little Bighorn River (Present-day Montana)

Joined by Sioux Chief Crazy Horse.

“If we must die, we die defending our rights.” -Sitting Bull“Hoka Hey, It’s a good day to die!” –Crazy Horse

Army ordered to round up warriors and move them to reservations.

Led by Lt. Colonel George Custer.

. . .Wanted the glory of leading a major victory.

Attacked Native Americans June 25, 1876.

SERIOUSLY UNDERESTIMATED THEIR STRENGTH.

Custer’s entire command- 250 soldiers – lost their lives at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

The Native American victory at Little Bighorn was short-lived. The army crushed the uprising and sent most of the Native Americans to reservations.

Sitting Bull and his followers fled north to Canada.

By 1881, exhausted and starving, the Lakota and Cheyenne agreed to live on a reservation.

Apaches resented the reservations.

Apache leader, Geronimo, fled to Mexico. He led raids against the settlers.

Goyathlay ("one who yawns")

Thousands of troops were after Geronimo.

“Once I moved about like the wind. Now, I surrender to you.” -Geronimo

1886 - Geronimo gave up.

He was the last Native American to surrender formally to the United States.

A Changing Culture for Native Americans

U.S. Army attacks.

White settlers move onto their land.

Slaughter of the buffalo.

Reservation policy.

“It makes little difference. . . Where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.” - Helen Hunt Jackson, American Reformer

1887- Congress changed government policy.

Try to end what Americans believed were the 2 weaknesses of Native American lives.

Break up reservations- end identification with tribal group; Give each a plot of land to farm and eventually become American citizens; Send children to white boarding schools.

Lack of private

property

Nomadic Tradition

Wovoka, a prophet, claimed the Sioux could regain their greatness by performing the ritual.

Reservation officials got nervous and banned the dance.They thought Sitting Bull was behind it. They went to the camp to arrest him. He was shot.

Lakota and Sioux fled in fear after Sitting Bull’s death.

They gathered at a creek called WOUNDED KNEE in South Dakota.

The Army went there to collect their weapons.

No one knows how it started, but a shot rang out- the Army responded and more than 200 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed.

Wounded Knee marked the end of armed conflict between whites and Native Americans.

The Native Americans had lost their struggle.

Why did the different lifestyles of the Indians and

white Americans lead to conflict?

Land to be settled

and used.

Stayed in one place,

Manifest Destiny – Whites’ destiny

to settle the whole of North

America

Exploited the land for their own

benefit

Individual needs put before those

of the community

Considered mutilation of the dead as barbaric

Professional army to fight

battles

Nobody owned the

land

Nomadic, followed the

buffalo

The Earth was sacred.

Conserved the land and

resources – only used what

was needed

Strong sense of community

Indian warriors fought battles. They were also

providers of foodThey were also providers of food