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Culture Clash. Homework: 202-211 Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a Native culture or individual. Lakota Dream Song. Reading. Threat to Black Voters Free Blacks Celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation Defeat at Bull Run Battle of Gettysburg
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Culture Clash • Homework: 202-211 • Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a Native culture or individual
Reading • 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
Plains Culture • 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
Government reaction • 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)
General S.R. Curtis West US Army Commander “ I want no peace till the Indians suffer more”
Bloody Battles • 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”
Assimilation • 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
Cattle Ranching • 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.
Summary Question • What were the vast grasslands called in the central and western United States? • What was the Lakota movement to restore Native Culture? • What was the Battle/Massacre where 300+ Sioux are killed in a few minutes? • Colonel who was killed at the Battle at Little Bighorn? • What was passed to encourage native Americans to assimilate and purchase property? • What Chief went from defeating Union forces at Little Bighorn to becoming a circus act for Wild Bill?