the wild west i shall not be there. i shall rise and pass. bury my heart at wounded knee. stephen...
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The Wild WestThe Wild West
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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The Plains IndianThe Plains Indian• By mid-1800s only 150,000• Many tribes relocated from East• Adaptation to environment• Horses, weaponry, guns• The Buffalo … their destruction
would spell the DOOM of the Indians’ way of life.
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White Man’s Solution
• 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty
1. Reservations
2. Wards of the nation
3. 1865 Civil War ends …
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Indian Wars 1864-90• 1864 Sand Creek Massacre aka
Chivington Massacre• 1874 Gold in the Black Hills• 1876 Little Big Horn1. Sioux and Cheyenne2. George Armstrong Custer3. Crazy Horse4. Sitting Bull
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Nez Perce and Chief Joseph• 1877 Northwest
• OO Howard
• Failed escape
• “My heart is sick
and sad. From where
the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.”
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Geronimooooooooooo!
• Southwest
• Apache
• 1886
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• 1889 Ghost Dance Cult• Visions and invincibility• Dec. 1890 Sitting Bull killed• Panic leads to escape leads to
massacre• Approx. 300 dead• “west is won”
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“white man’s road”
• Assimilation• Dawes Severalty Act1. Divvy ups the reservation lands
between families.2. Can be a citizen if give up tribal
ways• Failure
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Gosh darn they still have too much land…
• 1862 Homestead Act
• 1889 Indian Territory
• Oklahoma Land Rush
• 1890 Census declares the frontier is closed!
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