Warm Up
Mapping Native Americans.
Sodhouses
Westward Expansion Rap
Objectives
 Content Objective: Students will learn of the impact of
Westward Expansion on Native Americans living in the
West.
 Language Objective: Students will draw their idea of
Native Americans living in the west. After class
discussion, watching some videos they will draw another
picture and compare the two pictures.
Impact on Native
Americans
 Opposition of
American Indians
to Westward
Expansion
(Battle of Little
Bighorn, Sitting
Bull, Geronimo)
Crazy Horse Memorial
Heart of Appaloosa
 Heart of Appaloosa song
 Forced relocation
from traditional
lands to
reservations.
 (Chief Joseph,
Nez Perce)
 “I will fight no
more forever”
 Reduced
population
through warfare
and disease
(Battle of
Wounded Knee)
 Assimilation
attempts and
lifestyle changes
(ex: reduction of
buffalo
population)
 Reduced their
homelands
through treaties
that were broken