NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE GREAT PLAINS Native Americans =_____________________________ -Bering Straits Land Bridge from ASIA (ASIATIC) during the ICE AGE Characteristics: NEO-LITHIC – ANIMISTIC – COMMUNALISTIC – HUNTER-GATHERERS – _______________________!!!!! Native American’s pushed west to the_____________________. The GREAT PLAINS considered the GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. WHY?

THE GREAT PLAINS Indians thrive on the Plains because of: Dozens of tribes shared the Plains and fought one another for control of hunting grounds WHITES TAKE BACK THE GREAT PLAINS. WHY?

War on Native Americans The “INDIAN WARS” –Whites begin –Indians are –#1 TOOL TO DESTROY THE INDIANS: Destruction_________________________________ Plains Indians needed the Buffalo for __________________________________________ Whites kill MILLIONS OF BUFFALO – by 1886 ____________________________________ Whites consider Indians:

The End of the Native American Way of Life Reservation Policy – Indians were forced onto RESERVATIONS. _________________________________________________ The BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN a.k.a CUSTER’S LAST STAND: ________________________________ –.–. General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacks June of –_______________________________– Sioux leaders Custer and ___________________________ The Nation is outraged and vows to crush all Indian tribes

“The only good Indian is a dead Indian” General Phil Sheridan AMERICANIZATION / ASSIMILATION The US government decides to force assimilation on the Indians (AMERICANIZATION): INDIAN TRIBES ABOLISHED BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) Supposed to help the Indians WOUNDED KNEE __________ :