culture clash homework: 202-211 extra credit: research make poster or power point and present...
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Culture Clash
• Homework: 202-211
• Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a Native culture or individual
Lakota Dream Song
Reading• Threat to Black Voters• Free Blacks Celebrate the Emancipation
Proclamation• Defeat at Bull Run• Battle of Gettysburg• Killing of Wallace Fowler• An Indian Account of the Battle of Little Bighorn• Memorial of a Cherokee Nation• Emancipation Proclamation
Plains Culture
• Great Plains- vast grasslands in central and western united states
• Highly developed Native Culture (Osage, Iowa, Lakota, Cheyenne…)
• Spanish Introduce horse and guns and transforms their culture
• Then westward migration forces further change
Government reaction• Native Americans don’t
respect boundaries set• Massacre at Sand Creek…
Cheyenne believing they are at peace are attacked mostly women and children killed
• Lakota Chief Red Cloud unsuccessful negotiates end to settlement on Bozeman Trail
• Crazy Horse leads ambush against soldiers (Fetterman Massacre…Battle of 100 Slain)
General S.R. Curtis West US Army Commander
“ I want no peace till the Indians suffer more”
Bloody Battles• Treaty of Fort Laramie – Sitting
Bull only Sioux not to sign• Reservations become problem
for hunting culture• Red River War- Kiowa and
Comanche• Gold in Black Hills• Custer last Stand – Battle of the
Little Bighorn. Led by Sitting Bull
• Sitting Bull flees to Canada with his people but starvation forces them back…Joins “Buffalo Bill”
Assimilation• Natives would be accepted
if they gave up culture• Dawes Act- Sell properties
to Native Americans who wished to become “Americanized”- breaks treaties of reservations.
• Destruction of Buffalo• Massacre (Battle) at
Wounded Knee- Use of Cannons, starving and Freezing, Ghost Dance Movement, 300 dead in a few minutes
Cattle Ranching
• Vaqueros to cowboys
• Home stead and Open range
• Driving Cattle
• 25% Black 12% Mexican
• 3 month long drive
• Barbed Wire ends Open range. Large impact on Mexican cattle ranchers.
• Nuevomexicanos and Californios are promised fair treatment
• As more Easterners moved in power was taken away.
Summary Question
1) What were the vast grasslands called in the central and western United States?
2) What was the Lakota movement to restore Native Culture?
3) What was the Battle/Massacre where 300+ Sioux are killed in a few minutes?
4) Colonel who was killed at the Battle at Little Bighorn?5) What was passed to encourage native Americans to
assimilate and purchase property?6) What Chief went from defeating Union forces at Little
Bighorn to becoming a circus act for Wild Bill?
Art-Buffalo Chase- George Catlin (1832)
Art – Photography- Chief Joseph by Edward S Curtis
Stampede 1908- Fredric Remington