The Closing of the Western Frontier
the plains indians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyR4KKXgTiE
Buffalo Hunters Plains Indians used all parts of the Buffalo
Indian Wars
80 soldiers massacred December 21, 1866 Capt. William J. Fetterman 80 soldiers massacred December 21, 1866
Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851) Colorado Gold Rush (1859)
Colonel John Chivington Kill and scalp all, big and little! Sandy Creek, CO Massacre November 29, 1864
2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868) Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek (1867) Reservation Policy
Gold Found in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory! 1874
Gen. George Armstrong Custer The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 Gen. George Armstrong Custer Chief Sitting Bull
Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877) Chief Joseph I will fight no more forever! Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)
Arapahoe “Ghost Dance”, 1890
Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890
Indian Reservations Today
"Do not misunderstand me [and] my affection for the land "Do not misunderstand me [and] my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to live on yours. The earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it. “You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases..." Chief Joseph
A Century of Dishonor (1881) Helen Hunt Jackson Jackson was a writer that told about the adverse treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. Government in her book, A Century of Dishonor (1881)
Carlisle Indian School, PA Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Assimilation Policy Carlisle Indian School, PA
Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD Lakota Chief
The Traditional View of the West
The near extinction of the buffalo. Destruction of the Buffalo Herds The near extinction of the buffalo.
Yellowstone National Park First national park established in 1872.
National Parks
With President Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Movement John Muir With President Theodore Roosevelt
Sierra Club Founded in 1892