1 / 7

Landowners VS Native Americans

Landowners VS Native Americans. What were the effects of westward expansion on the American Indians of the Great Plains?. Reduction of the buffalo. Indians depended on buffalo and used every part. Landowners killed buffalo for fun. . Changes in government policy.

vonda
Download Presentation

Landowners VS Native Americans

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Landowners VS Native Americans What were the effects of westward expansion on the American Indians of the Great Plains?

  2. Reduction of the buffalo • Indians depended on buffalo and used every part. Landowners killed buffalo for fun.

  3. Changes in government policy • kept moving the Indians off land • reservations-land set aside for Indians to live on

  4. Battle of Little Big Horn • –last victory for the American Indian • CUSTER and all of his soldiers were killed (by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse)

  5. Chief Joseph • Led the Nez Perce Indians to Canada and they were defeated by the army. “From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."

  6. Battle of Wounded Knee • During the winter of 1890, police officers and US Army personnel in Wounded Knee, SD were frightened by the Ghost Dance and were going to arrest Chief Sitting Bull. In a standoff, he was shot to death. Angry Sioux tribe members petitioned the US Army for an explanation – then shots were fired. Within a few minutes, machine guns were used and over 200 tribesmen died.

  7. Geronimo • Indian leader opposed to westward expansion by the settlers

More Related