Chapter 18 Section 3 Native AmericanAmerican Struggles
Indian Life Moved to reservations Women cooked, caretakers, prepared hides Ghost Dance was a ritual dance Religion based on spiritual power of natural world Buffalo supplied their needs #20
Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains
He killed over 4,000 buffalo in 18 months. Hired by the railroad to prevent the buffalo from blocking trains & for food. In 1872 killed them for their hides. William Cody Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull
Geronimo In 1886, the last Native American to formally surrender to the United States. (Apache Indian )
Battle of Little Bighorn Black Hills of the Dakotas : Dakotas “No white person shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy.” Sitting Bull Gold was found… would not sell… Little Bighorn River… George Custer & his men lost their lives. Indians later lost and Sitting Bull fled to Canada.
Sitting Bull Leader of the Sioux Indians. Shot and killed during a scuffle over the Ghost Dance.
310 Indian Reservations in U.S. today
WoundedWounded Knee #22 South Dakota … Sioux and 25 soldiers killed after a gun was fired Ghost Dance – ritual dance they thought was a war dance Sitting Bull killed Marked the end of armed conflict b/t whites & Indians
*Break up reservations *Indians become farmers *Children go to white-run boarding schools *Some reservations would be sold to support schooling *reservations divided-poor land - Indians #24 Plan for the Indians:
Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson “It makes little difference…where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.”