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Native Americans: Navajos, Sioux, Nez Perce, Apache

Learn about the rich history and struggles of Native American tribes including the Navajos, Sioux, Nez Perce, and Apache. From their ancestral lands to battles with the United States, discover the stories of these resilient people.

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Native Americans: Navajos, Sioux, Nez Perce, Apache

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  1. Native Americans Navajos, Sioux, Nez Perce Apache

  2. Navajo People - “Dine”

  3. Navajos Land The Navajos’ ancestral homeland covered parts of what is now Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The Navajo people believe that their ancestors emerged into the place between four sacred mountains and that they have lived there since time immemorial. Without the Navajos’ knowledge or consent, the United States laid claim to these lands in 1848 as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the U.S.-Mexican War.

  4. The Long Walk • Navajos encountered a more substantial enemy.Colonel Kit Carson instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and stealing or killing their livestock. After starving the Navajos into submission, Carson rounded up every Navajo he could find - 8,000 men, women and children - and in the spring of 1864 forced his prisoners to march some 300 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Navajos call this "The Long Walk." Many died along the way, and died during the four long years of imprisonment. In 1868 after signing a treaty with the U.S., remaining Navajos were allowed to return to designated lands currently occupied in the Four Corners area of the U.S.

  5. Lakota-Dakota Sioux

  6. Clash on the Prairie Life on the Plains • Great Plains—grasslands in west-central portion of the U.S. • East: hunting, farming villages; west: nomadic hunting, gathering The Horse and the Buffalo • Horses, guns lead most Plains tribes to nomadic life by mid-1700s • Trespassing others’ hunting lands causes war; count coup for status • Buffalo provides many basic needs: - hides used for teepees, clothes, blankets - meat used for jerky, pemmican

  7. Sitting Bull Medicine man • Great Chief of the Sioux Nation • Born in 1831 • Became a warrior at 14 • Later becomes an influential medicine man • Inspires Crazy Horse to go against George a. Custer- Black Hills Dakota Territory Little Bighorn

  8. Battle of Wounded Knee • Joins Buffalo Bills Wild West Show 1885 • Rumored to have be the head of the Ghost Dance • Returns from Canada to lead Ghost Dance Dies Dec. 15, 1890 • Wounded Knee 1890 & 1973

  9. Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody

  10. Crazy Horse

  11. War Chief Born 1849- • Leader of the War for the Black Hills • Custer’s Last Stand/Fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn • After a winter of starvation surrenders in May 1877 • Refused to stay on the reservation • Dies while being taken into custody Sept 1877

  12. Crazy Horse Monument S.D.

  13. Chief Joseph Nez Perce

  14. “Tell General Howard I Know his heart. What he told me before, I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The Old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes and no. He who lead the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are – perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

  15. Cochise

  16. Apache Chief • Born 1823 • Friendly towards whites until 1861 • Starts an 11 year war • Accused of kidnapping, escapes being held hostage for the boys return. • Left friends behind, when they were not let go, Cocishe kills several whites • Finally surrenders in 1872 • Dies peacefully on a reservation in New Mexico, 1874.

  17. Geronimo • Born 1829 • Council of Warriors • Leads raids in northern Mexico • Returns to find his settlement has been attacked his wife, mother and three Children dead • Father in law - Cochise

  18. “I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” • The once peaceful man turns into a bold Warrior • Five months, 1645 miles, 5,000 white soldiers and 500 native scouts later • Surrenders in 1886 • Dies in 1909 • Last of the Great War Chiefs.

  19. Red Cloud • “They Made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept one; they promised to take our land, and they did.”

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