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Free Write-5 Minutes. What is something that you can not live without??? What is it? Why can you not live without it? Does not have to be life sustaining…can be anything at all. Chapter 19-1 & 19-4. Horses. 1600s Pueblo Indians took thousands of horses from Spanish

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Free Write-5 Minutes

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  1. Free Write-5 Minutes • What is something that you can not live without??? • What is it? • Why can you not live without it? • Does not have to be life sustaining…can be anything at all

  2. Chapter 19-1 & 19-4

  3. Horses • 1600s Pueblo Indians took thousands of horses from Spanish • Changes the way of life of Plains Indians • Allows them to travel much easier and follow the buffalo

  4. Buffalo • Hunting: • Native American migration mirrored the movement of buffalo • They used horses and bows and arrows • Chased them into corrals- enclosures • Uses • Tepees- tents • Travois-sled • Jerky- dried meat • Clothes

  5. The Buffalo Sustains Life

  6. Teepee Travois Jerky

  7. Stop and Think • Explain how the buffalo sustained life for Plains Indians. • 3 lines!

  8. Transcontinental Rail Road • The transcontinental RR also lured people out to the west • This encouraged farmers, miners, settlers, and also cattle drivers move west

  9. Homesteaders

  10. Competition • Homestead Act- • Encouraged people to move west • Farm and cultivate the land • After 5 years it would become theirs • Up to 160 acres • Many Americans moving west felt they had rights to the land over Native Americans • Government also felt this way • Oklahoma Land Rush • Sooners

  11. Stop and Think • What are some different things that lured people out to the West? • Give at least 3 examples. • What was the Homestead Act?

  12. Reservations • Dawes Act- Native Americans would receive a plot of land which they could farm on • Any extra land would be sold to farmers, settlers, other companies to develop.

  13. Native American Battles • The Sand Creek Massacre- U.S. troops led by Colonel Chivington slaughtered more than 200 men, women and children in the Cheyenne tribe. • Custer’s Last Stand- Sitting Bull led an attack first and then General Custer led a counter attack which was unsuccessful. (Custer’s Last Stand) • Wounded Knee- U.S. troops came into Sioux tribe and demanded weapons be put down. Fight broke out and hundreds of Sioux were slaughtered.

  14. Sand Creek Massacre

  15. Custer’s Last Stand

  16. Wounded Knee

  17. “Fight No More Forever” • Chief Joseph- Chief of the Nez Perce • After being chased into the NW and into Canada, finally he gave in and surrendered. • Vowing to never fight again

  18. Homework • Please write 2 paragraphs expressing your feelings about how the Native Americans were treated as we expanded westward towards California. • Do you think there was anything that could have been done differently? If so, what could it have been?

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