All Blog PostsMy BlogEdit Blog PostsAdd.September 16thPosted by 6Hanna on September 16, 2011 at 1:36pmView Blog.Admin Options.Edit PostAdd Tags Delete Post Edit Blog Posts..Work day for Project.Notes.:-Describe Native American Culture:Native Americans hunted, plated crops and steeled in small vilages. They abided by the Tribal law they traded and produced beatifully crafted clothes and tools. Native American way of life began to change. As the native peoples got horses and guns they were able to travel farther and hunt more efficiently. By the mid-1700s, almost all the tribes on the Great Plains had left their farms to roam the plains and hunt buffalo.-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?:The settlers believed that owning land, making a mining claim, or starting a business would give them a stake in the country. They argued that the Native Americans had forfeited their rights to the land because they hadn’t settled down to “improve” it. Migrants streamed westward along railroad and wagon trails to claim the land. The discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858 drew tens of thousands of miners to the region.-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?While more settlers to move westward, the arrival of the railroads also influenced the government’s policy toward the Native Americans who lived on the plains. It was mostly women, children, and old men who were slaughtered. Scalps were taken, so were other dismembered body parts, later proudly displayed by the Militia in a theatre in Denver, to widespread acclaim. Congressional and Army investigations soon revealed this "victory" as a national scandal.Sitting Bull:Sitting Bull earned this name after a fight with the Crow, an enemy of the Sioux. He lead his people because of his stength. He was determaind warrior, spiritual leader, and medicine man. He was killed by Native American police at Standing Rock Reservation in December 1890.Custer's Last Sand:Battle of Wounded Knee:On December 28, 1890, the Seventh Cavalry Custer’s old regiment took about 350 starving and freezing Sioux to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons.Within minutes, the Seventh Cavalry killed 300unarmed Native Americans, including several children. The soldiers left the bodies to freeze on the ground. This event, ended the Indean War era.Daws Act:Congress passed the Dawes Act to “Americanize” the Native Americans. This broke up resivations and gave some land to invididual Native Americans. 160 acres to the head of the hosue hold. 80 to unmarried adults. In the end the whites gave took 2/3 of the land that was supposed to go to Native Americans. The Native Americans received no money from the sale of these lands.-Describe a cowboy's lifeA Cowboy is a man who tends cattle on ranches in North America by horse. Beside just working on ranches soem Cowboys went to work in rodeos. Cow boys were mainly 15-40 years old. They worked on Ranches for 10-14 hours a day tending cattle. They are very alert to dangers and outlaws. Some times they use guns to kill or scare off animals they might upset the cattle or horses or to chase off outlaws. A cowboy’s season began with a spring roundup they herded all the longhorns they could find on the open range into a large corral. They kept them there and strved them until the wanted to graze and not run away.
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