Life changed after the Civil War

Native Americans

Interaction and Conflict

All information taken from the curriculum guide; images from a variety of Google images and audio/video taken from Unitedstreaming.com

The slaughter of the Buffalo

Moved to Reservations

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Interaction• opposition by American Indians to westward

expansion (Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull, Geronimo)

• forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations (Chief Joseph, Nez Percé)

• reduced population through warfare and disease (Battle of Wounded Knee)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC42z0cCf_U&list=PL88639D52BD5FA0C7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQDkefN5-bk

Conflict: Battle of Little Bighorn

• General George A. Custer– Acting on his own initiative, he

launched a three pronged attack against the largest groups of Native American warriors ever assembled on the Great Plains

– The Native American forces turned on Custer and killed all of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5SXMKS1xUhttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OktYwRRwTio

Sitting Bull

• Led his people to victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• After the victory, he took his people to Canada to avoid the reservation system– In 1881; his people were facing

starvation he led them to Montana and gave up his rifle hoping to show that he became a friend of the Americans.

Geronimo • Outnumbered by American

and Mexican forces

• Refused to acknowledge the American occupation of the American west.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eum4xW4c4X8

– US government had taken 6 million acres back from the Nez Perce after the gold rush in 1864 restricting the tribe to a reservation in Idaho, Chief Joseph inherited this trouble.

– Surrenders to the US government and moves his tribe to the Oklahoma reservation where many died of disease

– 1879, he spoke with President Hayes and his people were moved back to the Northwest but not to Idaho but another reservation in Washington

READ THE ARTICLE ON CHIEF JOSEPH

Chief Joseph