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Pick up reading on buffalo from the bin and answer these questions on your warm-up sheet: -How is the buffalo important to Native American life? -How do the settlers’ values regarding the buffalo differ from the Native Americans?. WARM UP (3 RD PERIOD ). Warm UP 4 th period .
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Pick up reading on buffalo from the bin and answer these questions on your warm-up sheet: -How is the buffalo important to Native American life? -How do the settlers’ values regarding the buffalo differ from the Native Americans? WARM UP (3RD PERIOD )
Warm UP4th period Read “Buffalo Dusk” silently to yourself and answer the questions
Lesson Question How did non-Native American cultures impact Native Americans?
Vocabulary Assimilation Barb Wire Dawes Act Reservations Wounded Knee
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) • Takes place at Fort Laramie (Wyoming) • Concerns Black Hills region of South Dakota
Land promised in Black Hills. • NAs also get clothes, education, and farming equipment. • Government’s Goal: ASSIMILATETHE NATIVES
Assimilation methods in Treaty of F.L. • Each male, 14 yrs+ receives: “a suit of good substantial woolen clothing,” hat, new shirt, & socks, etc. • Each female, 12+ receives: flannel skirt, woolen hose, 12 yards of cotton domestics, etc. • “For the period of4 years after he shall have settled upon…reservation, 1 lb of meat & 1 lb of flour per day”
1874: General George A. Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills w/miners • seeking gold • Prospectors quickly moved to the Sioux' sacred land • US continued battle against Sioux in Black Hills • 1877: gov’t finally confiscated the land
Closer Come up with 2 bumper stickers or slogans that would memorialize the Treaty of Fort Laramie. State whose perspective you are representing for each • Ex: FORT LARAMIE: A WAY TO GET LAND! (US military) • Ex: Fort Laramie: The Treaty that Changed Our Lives Forever (Native Americans)