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Settling of the Frontier West, 1865-1890

Explore the settlement of the Frontier West from 1865 to 1890, focusing on the Plains Indians, the government's Indian policy, and the failed Americanization efforts. Discover key events such as the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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Settling of the Frontier West, 1865-1890

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  1. Settling of the Frontier West, 1865-1890

  2. the plains indians

  3. Nomadic Warriors • Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho

  4. Reasons for the Government’s Choice of Indian Policy • 1. Farmland • 2. Railroad Companies • 3. Gold

  5. Indians Are Cheated • 1. • 2. • 3.

  6. Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851) ColoradoGold Rush (1859)

  7. Colonel John Chivington Kill and scalp all, big and little!Sandy Creek, CO MassacreNovember 29, 1864 Chivington Massacre Result:

  8. 2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868) Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek (1867) ReservationPolicy

  9. Reasons for the American Victory • 1. • 2.

  10. Treaties Are Broken for Gold • White settlers flood the Indian territory. • Indians appeal to government. They attempt a peaceful solution. Government sends Seventh Cavalry to remove Indians. • Sitting Bull’s Vision (Tatanka Yotanka): • Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko):

  11. The Battle of Little Big Horn1876 Gen. GeorgeArmstrong Custer Chief Sitting Bull

  12. No More Independence • Crazy Horse surrenders and is murdered. • 1881-Sitting Bull surrenders. All hope for independence vanishes.

  13. Dawes Severalty Act (1887):Americanization Policy 1. 2. 3. Carlisle Indian School, PA

  14. “Ghost Dance”, 1890 Wovoka:

  15. Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless BodyWounded Knee, SD, 1890 Indians are needlessly slaughtered

  16. Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor • Published in 1881 • Called a change in federal Indian policies • Describe the horrible living conditions and treatment

  17. The Americanization of the Indian!

  18. Federal Indian Boarding Schools Indian Children “Walking in Two Worlds”!

  19. The Americanization Policy Fails • 1. • 2. • 3.

  20. Indian Reservations Today

  21. Crazy Horse Monument:Black Hills, SD Lakota Chief

  22. Korczak Ziolkowski, SculptorCrazy Horse Monument His vision of the finished memorial.

  23. Mt. Rushmore: Black Hills, SD

  24. the cowboys

  25. The Traditional View of the West

  26. Romance and the West • Wild West Show draws thousands and thousands • Dime-novels sell a fiction that the country can’t wait to read!

  27. What Is the Truth About Cowboys?

  28. The Farmers

  29. Homesteads From Public Lands 1862- Congress passed the Homestead Act

  30. 1887LandPromotionPosterfor theDakotaTerritories

  31. The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD Physical Strain: Emotional Strain:

  32. Barbed Wire Joseph Glidden

  33. Oklahoma Land Rush • Who were the “sooners”? • Who were the “boomers”? • Indians lost land because of their support of the Confederacy! 2 million acres • There was more than one land rush in Oklahoma!

  34. the GUNSLINGERS

  35. Colt .45 Revolver God didn’t make men equal.Colonel Colt did!

  36. Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers Jesse James Billy the Kid

  37. Legendary Female Western Characters Calamity Jane Annie Oakley

  38. Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890

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