Name ________________________________ Date _______
Chapter 18 section 3 Native American
Starting in the mid-1850s, miners, railroad, cattle drives, and farmers came to the Great Plains.
Conflict (page 543)
As long as white people regarded the Plains as the “ ___________________ _____________________
______________” they left the Native Americans who lived there more or less alone.
Reservation Policy
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In _____________________ the federal government appointed the Indian Peace Commission to
develop a new policy toward Native Americans
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The commission recommended moving the Native Americans to _____________________________
(tracts of land set aside for them). This was a policy already in progress, but was now being enforced.
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As early as 1830 Native Americans were relocated to reservations.
Little Bighorn (second column page 545)
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The Lakota tribe (part of the Sioux nation) lived in the Black Hills of the Dakotas.
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The government had promised “No white person or persons shall be permitted to _________________
upon or ______________________”or even to “________________________ through” these hills.
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In 1874, General George Custer was sent out to the Dakotas on an expedition to see if gold really
existed in the Black Hills. Custer confirmed that there was ____________________” from the
grassroots down.”
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Prospectors swarmed the area. The ______________________________ protested against the
trespassers.
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The United States government tried to buy the Black Hills from the _____________________________.
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Sitting Bull, an important leader of the Lakota tribe, _____________________________.
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Sitting Bull gathered ____________________________ and ___________________________ warriors
along the __________________ ________________ __________________ (in present day Montana)
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The U.S. army was ordered to round up the warriors and move them to _________________________.
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George Custer decided to attack the Native Americans on _________________ ________ __________.
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Custer underestimated the strength of the Native American forces (several thousand).
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______________________ and his ___________________ command _________________ their lives.
This Native American victory was called the Battle of Little Bighorn or “Custer’s Last Stand”
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The U.S. army soon crushed the uprising and by _____________________, exhausted and starving, the
_____________________ and ______________________ agreed to live on a ____________________.
The Apache Wars
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Trouble broke out in the ______________________. The Chiracahau _______________had been
moved from their homeland to the San Carlos reservation in Arizona in the mid ______________.
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The Apache leader, ____________________________, escaped from San Carlos and fled to
___________________________ with a small band of ___________________________.
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During the 1880s he led raids against _____________________ and the ________________________
in Arizona.
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In ____________________, Geronimo finally gave up - the ____________________ Native American to
_________________ __________________________ the United States.
Chief Joseph (top of page 546: People in History)
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In ___________________ the U.S. government demanded the ____________ ____________ give up
their ___________________ and move onto _____________________________ in Idaho.
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Chief ___________________ was preparing to move his people when he found out that several young
braves had_______________________ a group of ___________________ settlers.
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Fearing __________________, Chief Joseph led his followers over _______________ miles across
_________________, _____________________, _________________, and ____________________.
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For more than __________________ months he managed to evade (stay away from/escape) a U.S.
army force ___________________ times larger than his group.
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Along the way, he won the ______________________ of many whites for his ____________ treatment
of __________________ and his concern for __________________, ________________, and the
____________.
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Just ___________ miles from the ___________________ border, the __________ ____________ were
surrounded.
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Chief Joseph surrendered (part of surrender quote)
“The little __________________ are ___________________ to death. My people…. Have no
______________ no _____________.....I am ___________________. My heart is
___________________ and _______________. From where the ___________now stands I will
______________ ____________ ____________ ___________________.”
A Changing Culture (bottom of page 546)
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List the things that contributed to changing the traditional way of life of Native American
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
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More change came from well-meaning ___________________ who wanted to _________________
reservations and absorb the Native Americans into _____________ ____________culture.
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The Dawes Act (1887) - This law aimed to ___________________________what Americans regarded as
two weaknesses of Native American life the lack of________________ _________________ and the
___________________ ___________________
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The Dawes Act proposed to break up the ____________________________________ and end
______________________________ with a tribal group.
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Each Native American would receive a __________________________ of reservation land.
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The goal was to encourage _________________________ people to become _________________ and
eventually, ____________________ _________________.
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Native American _______________________ would be sent to white run _______________
____________________.
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Over the next 50 years, the government divided up the reservations. Speculators acquired most of the
_______________ __________________.
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Native Americans often received __________________, _________________ plots that were not
suited for ________________________.
Wounded Knee
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The Dawes Act changed forever the Native American way of life and weakened their
______________________ traditions.
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The Sioux turned to ____________________________________, a prophet.
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Wovoka claimed that the Sioux could regain their former greatness if they performed a ritual known as
the ________________ __________________.
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Believing that ____________ ________________ was the leader of the movement, police went to his
camp to ________________ ________________, and in a scuffle, killed him.
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Several hundred Lakota Sioux fled in fear. They gathered at a creek called _____________________
__________________ in Southwestern South Dakota.
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On December 29, 1890, the army went to collect the Sioux’s ________________________.
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No one knows how the fighting started, but a pistol rang out and more than ______________ Sioux
and ____________ soldiers were killed.
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_____________________ __________________ marked the end of armed conflict between
____________________________ and ___________________ ______________________
The Native Americans had lost their long struggle.