Today we kept going over folks power points i have a blog post due on 9/11
5:1 cultures clash on the prairie( Taylor Peterson)
culture of plains Indians
-Mississippi river to Rockies
-Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, crow, Iowa, Comanche
-didn't live in plains until white men brought horses
-buffalo provided clothes tepees
-men became hunters and warriors
-believed in spirits controlled natural wonders
-no one could dominate group
-children learned from myths
Settlers pushed forwards
-discovery of gold thousands went
-mining camps had bad living conditions
-fortune seekers crowded camps
-business women tried laundresses freight hauler or even miners
Govt restricts Natives
-1834 govt passed act that made Great Plains one reservation
-Natives still hunted normal areas caused conflict
-Bozeman trail ran through hunting ground crazy horse ambushed William J. Fetterman killing of 80 soldiers
-fight continued til trail closed
Bloody Battles continue
-red river war- Kiowa and Comanche raiding
-moving friendly tribes to reservations open fired on all the others
-General Phillip Sheridan" to destroy their villages and ponies to kill and hang warriors and to bring back all women and children"
-miners searched for gold in Black hills
-SItting bull had vision of a war
-late 1876 Sioux were defeated
-Seventh Calvary entirely killed by Sioux general custer incharge
Taylor Schaben
Cultures Clash on the Prairie
Assimilation-plan to make natives part of white culture, govt approved
Dawes Act- americanize the natives took land from them land was divided for Natives for Indians
Battle of Wounded Knee-350 Sioux on wounded knee creek, US troops surrounded them and disarm them
300 Sioux and 25 soldiers died
Cattle with loss of buffalo NAtives switched to cattle and horses
Vaqueros and Cowboys first cowboys were Mexican
Chosholm Trail San Antonio to Kansas 35,000 cattle in first year
cattle drives can take 3 months 300 cattle a cook a wrangler
barbed wire fences were cheap and made ranches easier to run
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