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Ch.13 Sec 2

Ch.13 Sec 2. Page 458 Travois reservation Sitting bull . People of the Plains. After the Civil War 360,000 Native Americans lived on the Great Plains Native Americans hunted buffalo for food and clothing. . Broken Treaties. U.S. treaties promised to safeguard Native American lands.

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Ch.13 Sec 2

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  1. Ch.13 Sec 2 Page 458 • Travois • reservation • Sitting bull

  2. People of the Plains • After the Civil War 360,000 Native Americans lived on the Great Plains • Native Americans hunted buffalo for food and clothing.

  3. Broken Treaties • U.S. treaties promised to safeguard Native American lands. • As the miners and railroads pushed forward they broke the treaties to take more Native American land. • The Fort Laramie Treaty wanted Native Americans to stop following the buffalo and settle permanently. • The U.S. officials offered to repay the Native Americans by protecting their lands.

  4. Sand Creek Massacre • Gold was discovered on Native American land and they were forced off of the reservation. The Americans had broken the treaty of Fort Laramie. • Many warriors resisted and attacked supply trains and homes. • In response Colonel John Chivington massacred 100 men ,women and children

  5. End of the Buffalo • The giant herds of buffalo were hunted almost to extinction by white hunters. • The Native Americans depended on buffalo to sustain every part of their lives. • One hunter might kill 2,000 buffalo in a month.

  6. Last stand for Custer and The Sioux • Many Sioux and Cheyenne lived on land set aside for them in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. • A gold strike brought of flood of miners. • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led attacks to keep whites out.

  7. Little Big Horn • June 1876, under orders to force Native Americans off their land, General Custer attacked a large number of Sioux and Cheyennes. • Custer and all his men died

  8. Nez Perces Navajo • Bred horses and cattle • Forced onto a reservation • Chief Joseph fled toward Canada to escape humiliation • Chief Joseph surrendered and said “ I shall fight no more forever” • Raided settlers farms for livestock. • White settlers called the U.S. army • After a series of wars • Navajos were defeated in Arizona. • That led the rest of their lives suffering from disease and hunger.

  9. Dawes Act • Hoping to improve Native American life, Congress passed the Dawes Act in 1887. • It tried to turn Native Americans into farmers. • Set up schools to make children more like Americans. • Few took to farming and many sold their land cheap to dishonest whites. • They were forced to abandon their traditions and remained poor and depended on the government for money.

  10. The Apaches • Geronimo refused to go to a reservation and led a resistance for 10 years. • They attacked settlers in Arizona and New Mexico • Geronimo was captured in 1886 and sent to a reservation in Oklahoma.

  11. The Battle of Wounded Knee • The U.S. Army tried to stop Native Americans from performing a ritual dance call “The Ghost Dance”. • During a struggle to disarm Native Americans a gun went off and nearly 200 Sioux men, women and children were killed.

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