Chapter 18 THE AMERICAN WEST
The Indians of the Great Plains Northern Plains BlackfeetCrowsSioux Southwest Eastern Plains Southwest Eastern Plains Kiowas Mandans Kiowas Mandans ComanchesArikaras ComanchesArikaras ApachesPawnees ApachesPawnees Central Plains Central PlainsArapahosCheyennes
The Plains Indians Nomadic warriors, hunter-gatherers Buffalo-based economy
Indian-White Relations Minnesota Uprising 1864 –Sand Creek Massacre. Red Cloud’s War-Ft. Laramie Treaty the Great Sioux War Economic Warfare/ destruction of the buffalo Reservation system Assimilation- Dawes Act (1887) From the Ghost Dance to Wounded Knee (1890)
Mines, Timber, Farms and Ranches The Mining Frontier (Bonanza #1) The West, the Iron Range The Cattle Bonanza; the Long Drive, the growth of the Railroads The Farming Bonanza: The opening of the Great Plains Timber- Pacific NW- Northern MN and WI, and MI