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Chapter 18 THE AMERICAN WEST
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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
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The Plains Indians Nomadic warriors, hunter-gatherers Buffalo-based economy
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Indian-White Relations 1862- Minnesota Uprising 1864 –Sand Creek Massacre. 1867-1868- Red Cloud’s War-Ft. Laramie Treaty 1875-76- the Great Sioux War Economic Warfare/ destruction of the buffalo Reservation system Assimilation- Dawes Act (1887) From the Ghost Dance to Wounded Knee (1890)
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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
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