Today in class were more presentations on the chapters and I will hopefully go last.
People wanted to move west but they thought it was desert. Didn't think anyone lived out there but actually lots of tribes. Spain brought horses and buffalo were roaming the plains. Spain also brought guns so hunting was easier but wars came more often. Tribe is extended family mostly and men hunted while women were housewives. Plains indians believed in spirits and tried not to have leaders. Whites moved out to own land or businesses or mining. justified by saying native americans did not improve land just lived off it. 1858 gold and silver found so tens of thousands of people went west. Irish german polish everyone came for it. Gold rush to railroads to policy with Indians. 1834 great plains indian reservation. 1850 started taking great plains. 1864 invaded indian territory and killed mainly children and women. Colonel John Chivington "I want no peace till the Indians suffer more". Eighty soldiers killed in ambush by Crazy Horse, Fetterman Massacre/Battle of the Hundred Slain. Sioux lived on reservation by Missouri= Treaty of Fort Laramie. Sitting Bull never signed.
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