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Native American Struggles. Chapter 18. Section 3. Indian Life. #20. Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains. William Cody Buffalo Bill . 1. Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull.
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Native American Struggles Chapter 18 Section 3
Indian Life #20
Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains
William Cody Buffalo Bill 1 Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull He killed over 4,000 buffalo in 18 months. Hired by the railroad to prevent the buffalo from blocking trains & for food. In 1872 killed them for their hides.
2 Geronimo • In 1886, the last Native American to formally surrender to the United States. (Apache Indian)
Battle of Little Bighorn Black Hills of the Dakotas: “No white person shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy.” Sitting Bull Gold was found… would not sell… Little Bighorn River… George Custer & his men lost their lives. 3 Indians later lost and Sitting Bull fled to Canada.
Sitting Bull 4 Leader of the Sioux Indians. Shot and killed during a scuffle over the Ghost Dance.
Wounded Knee South Dakota …1890 240 Sioux and 25 soldiers killed after a gun was fired Ghost Dance – ritual dance they thought was a war dance Sitting Bull killed Marked the end of armed conflict b/t whites & Indians 5 #22
Dawes Act The goal was to eliminate 2 weaknesses of Native American life: the lack of private property and the nomadic traditions. The goal was to encourage Indians to become farmers and eventually American citizens. #23
*Break up reservations *Indians become farmers *Children go to white-run boarding schools *Some reservations would be sold to support schooling *reservations divided-poor land - Indians #24
Helen Hunt Jackson “It makes little difference…where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.”