1. Industrialization Notes: Native Americans

2. Plains Indians  Dakota Sioux- Uprising (1862)  Over 650 killed  Afterwards, over 300 Sioux warriors were sentenced to death  Largest mass execution in American history

3. Lakota Sioux  Dec. 1866- Red Cloud unsuccessfully appealed to the gov. to end white settlement on the trail  Crazy Horse ambushed Fetterman  Sand Creek (Fetterman’s Massacre)

4. Treaty of Fort Laramie  Sioux forcibly agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri river

5. Indian Peace Commission  Removed all Indian tribes onto reservations away from the routes of U.S. westward expansion

6. Battle of Little Big Horn  June 25, 1876  Col. Cluster and his troops were all killed  Led to future defeat of the Sioux

7. Assimilation  Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become a part of white culture

8. Impact on Native Americans  Dawes Act  Intended to “Americanize” Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners  Destruction of the Buffalo

10. Battle of Wounded Knee  U.S. soldiers slaughtered 300 unarmed Native Americans  Brought an end to the Indian Wars

11. Cattle and Cowboys  Cattle becomes big business  Cowboys emerge