• Homework: 202-211
• Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a
Native culture or individual

• Threat to Black Voters
• Free Blacks Celebrate the Emancipation
Proclamation
• Defeat at Bull Run
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Killing of Wallace Fowler
• An Indian Account of the Battle of Little Bighorn
• Memorial of a Cherokee Nation
• Emancipation Proclamation

• Great Plains- vast grasslands in central and western united states
• Highly developed Native
Culture (Osage, Iowa,
Lakota, Cheyenne…)
• Spanish Introduce horse and guns and transforms their culture
• Then westward migration forces further change

• Native Americans don’t respect boundaries set
• Massacre at Sand
Creek…Cheyenne believing they are at peace are attacked mostly women and children killed
• Lakota Chief Red Cloud unsuccessful negotiates end to settlement on
Bozeman Trail
• Crazy Horse leads ambush against soldiers
(Fetterman
Massacre…Battle of 100
Slain)

• Treaty of Fort Laramie – Sitting
Bull only Sioux not to sign
• Reservations become problem for hunting culture
• Red River War- Kiowa and
Comanche
• Gold in Black Hills
• Custer last Stand – Battle of the
Little Bighorn. Led by Sitting
Bull
• Sitting Bull flees to Canada with his people but starvation forces them back…Joins “Buffalo Bill”

• Natives would be accepted if they gave up culture
• Dawes Act- Sell properties to Native Americans who wished to become
“Americanized”- breaks treaties of reservations.
• Destruction of Buffalo
• Massacre (Battle) at
Wounded Knee- Use of
Cannons, starving and
Freezing, Ghost Dance
Movement, 300 dead in a few minutes

• Vaqueros to cowboys
• Home stead and Open range
• Driving Cattle
• 25% Black 12% Mexican
• 3 month long drive
• Barbed Wire ends Open range. Large impact on
Mexican cattle ranchers.

• Nuevomexicanos and
Californios are promised fair treatment
• As more Easterners moved in power was taken away.

1) What were the vast grasslands called in the central and western United States?
2) What was the Lakota movement to restore Native
Culture?
3) What was the Battle/Massacre where 300+ Sioux are killed in a few minutes?
4) Colonel who was killed at the Battle at Little Bighorn?
5) What was passed to encourage native Americans to assimilate and purchase property?
6) What Chief went from defeating Union forces at Little
Bighorn to becoming a circus act for Wild Bill?

Art-
Buffalo Chase- George Catlin (1832)

Art – Photography- Chief Joseph by
Edward S Curtis

Stampede 1908- Fredric Remington