1. Settling of the Frontier West, 1865-1890

2. the
plains
indians

3. Nomadic Warriors
Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho

4. Reasons for the Government’s Choice of Indian Policy
1. Farmland
2. Railroad Companies
3. Gold

5. Indians Are Cheated 1. 2. 3.

6. Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851)
Colorado Gold Rush (1859)

7. Colonel John Chivington
Kill and scalp all, big and little! Sandy Creek, CO Massacre November 29, 1864
Chivington Massacre
Result:

8. 2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868) Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek (1867)
Reservation Policy

9. Reasons for the American Victory1. 2.

10. Treaties Are Broken for Gold
White settlers flood the Indian territory.
Indians appeal to government. They attempt a peaceful solution. Government sends Seventh Cavalry to remove Indians.
Sitting Bull’s Vision (Tatanka Yotanka):
Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko):

11. Gen. George Armstrong Custer
The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Chief Sitting Bull

12. No More Independence Crazy Horse surrenders and is murdered.
1881-Sitting Bull surrenders. All hope for independence vanishes.

13. Carlisle Indian School, PA
Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Americanization Policy 1. 2. 3.
Carlisle Indian School, PA

14. “Ghost Dance”, 1890
Wovoka:

15. Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890
Indians are needlessly slaughtered

16. Helen Hunt Jackson Published in 1881
A Century of Dishonor
Published in 1881
Called a change in federal Indian policies
Describe the horrible living conditions and treatment

17. The Americanization of the Indian!

18. Federal Indian Boarding Schools
Indian Children
“Walking in Two Worlds”!

19. The Americanization Policy Fails1. 2. 3.

20. Indian Reservations Today

21. Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD
Lakota Chief

22. His vision of the finished memorial.
Korczak Ziolkowski, Sculptor Crazy Horse Monument
His vision of the finished memorial.

23. Mt. Rushmore: Black Hills, SD

24. the
cowboys

25. The Traditional View of the West

26. Romance and the West Wild West Show draws thousands and thousands
Dime-novels sell a fiction that the country can’t wait to read!

27. What Is the Truth About Cowboys?

28. The
Farmers

29. Homesteads From Public Lands
1862- Congress passed the Homestead Act

30. 1887 Land Promotion Poster for the Dakota Territories

31. The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD
Physical Strain:
Emotional Strain:

32. Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden

33. Oklahoma Land Rush Who were the “sooners”? Who were the “boomers”?
Indians lost land because of their support of the Confederacy!
2 million acres
There was more than one land rush in Oklahoma!

34. the
GUNSLINGERS

35. God didn’t make men equal. Colonel Colt did!
Colt .45 Revolver
God didn’t make men equal. Colonel Colt did!

36. Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers
Jesse James
Billy the Kid

37. Legendary Female Western Characters
Calamity Jane
Annie Oakley

38. Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890