government's policy toward Native American land
the government passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land
... [Show More] set aside for Native American tribes, the government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe, then they established boundaries for the Native Americans and forced them to live on the reservations, then they would backtrack and make the boundaries smaller
economic opportunities that drew large numbers of people to the Great Plains beginning in the mid1800s
mining, they wanted to find gold and become rich
Battle of Wounded Knee
custer's old regiment rounded up starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek, the soldiers demanded that the native americans give up all their weapons and a shot was fired, the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans, the soldiers left the corpses to freeze on the ground
rapid growth of the cattle industry
there were almost no buffalo left so hunters switched to a different animal, there was a demand of beef and the railroad were able to transport the animals long distances
assimilation policy of the Dawes Act failed because
the Native Americans did not want to be americanized, they were warned about white mens lies and they refused to believe them
rise and the decline of the cattle industry
the reasons the cattle industry rose was because of the demand of beef and the railroad being able to transport the animals long distances, the reason the cattle industry declined because of the horrible weather patterns killed the cattle, and overgrazing of land
Great Plains
grassland in the west central portion of US, it was one big native american reservation in the early 1800s but the government then forced the Native Americans on to small reservations, Native Americans lived there and white settlers wanted to also live on, they claimed that the plains were unsettled because the Native Americans had not tried to improve it
horse influence Native American life on the Great Plains
horses created a new way for Native Americans to travel and hunt and they expanded their range
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Bozeman Trail ran through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains, the Sioux chief tried to appeal to the government to end white settlement on the trail, Native Americans ambushed the whites, skirmishes continued until the government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail with the treaty of Fort Laramie and the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River
Sitting Bull
native american leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, refused to sign the treaty of Fort Laramie
Custer was killed in the
Battle of little Bighorn
George A. Custer
commander of the 7th cavalry, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, led his men to their death by attacking Stoux and Cheyeene tribes, declared gold in Black Hills
Assimilation
a plan where Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture, whites tried to force natives into being americanized
Dawes Act
aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans, broke up Native American reservations, the government would sell the remainder of the reservations to settlers, and the money from the land sold would be given to the Native Americans, whites took most of the Native American territory, Native Americans received no money from the sale of these lands
Reservations
areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
black hills
Sacred land of the Sioux Indians, Custer reported gold there and it started a gold rush
the most significant blow to tribal life was the destruction of the
buffalo
longhorn
cattle that lived in the south
Chisholm Trail
the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas [Show Less]