Title: Chapter 19: Growth in the West Section 3: Native Americans fight to survive
1Chapter 19 Growth in the WestSection 3
Native Americans fight to survive
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4The BuffaloA 4 legged shopping center
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5Uses for the buffalo
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- Hide clothing, tepees, carrying bags, shields
- Horns spoons and other tools
- Belly pails and bowls
- Tail and hooves decoration
- Blood food
- Brains and liver eaten raw right after the kill
- Meat dried for food
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9When discussing Native Americans and the West
- Reservation
- Cholera
- Epidemic
- Cavalry
- Massacre are used all the time
- Without knowing all of them does this sound
positive or negative for the Indians?
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10Indians first moved
- West of the Appalachians
- West of the Mississippi River
- Up to the Rockies
- And. Squeezed onto smaller and smaller pieces of
land
- These Indian territories were seen as buffers
or barriers between Indians and Whites - (See next slides)
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15What led the Plains Indians to death and/or
reservations?
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16One of the worst ways white men affected Native
Americans is by killing most of their buffalo
1913-1938
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17Why get rid of all the buffalo?
- Whites used them for food for those people
building the railroads. - They would sometimes just shoot the for the fun
of it (as a sport). - Or, they would shoot them so they wouldnt get in
the way of the trains that were starting to pass
through the West
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18Custers Last StandThe Battle of Little
Bighorn
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22There ended up being more raids and attacks
- One way to look for peace was to promise Native
Americans some land on what wed now call
reservations
(land set aside for Native Americans)
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23- One place given to these Native Americans was in
the Black Hills of South Dakota. - Until
- the U.S. government found out there was gold
there, and they wanted it back.
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24Two other famous battles
- The Sand Creek Massacre
- Wounded Knee
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26Wounded Knee
- On that day, in an atmosphere of mutual
distrust it took only the firing of one gun to
begin the brutal killing of most of the 350
Indian men, women and children. Twenty-five of
the 492 soldiers and scouts were also killed. It
has been called both a battle and a massacre, but
what Wounded Knee has come to symbolize is a
clash of cultures and a failed government-Indian
policy its effects still felt even today.
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27There were still about 50 times more whites than
Indians
- (And those odds were growing)
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28Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Red Cloud
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29The Dawes Act was passed by Congress to move
Indians to reservations
- It was intended to help out Native Americans
- by teaching them to live more of a lifestyle
like white farmers did, but you can imagine how
well that worked
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30Chiksika (a Shawnee)
- When a white army battles Indians and wins, it
is called a great victory, but if they lose it is
called a massacre.
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