1. Do Now 1. What Indian tribe did Chief Joseph lead?
“I am tired of fighting…It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are…I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.”
-Chief Joseph Nez Perce Tribe
1. What Indian tribe did Chief Joseph lead?  
2. What problems did his tribe have?
3. Why do you think that Chief Joseph chose to “fight no more forever”?
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2. American Indian Life
The American Indians lived on the plains and relied on the Buffalo for food, shelter and clothing

3. Impact on the Native Americans
The buffalo population was drastically reduced, leading to a change in lifestyle for the American Indians.

8. Impact on American Indians
Native Americans were forced to live on Reservations.
Reservation: Lands set aside for the Indians to live on so they would not be in the way of the Great Plains Settlers.

10. Impact on American Indians
Assimilation: Plains Indians became more Americanized (like whites).
Their culture was lost through lifestyle changes forced upon them by the US Government.

11. Impact on American Indians
Children were taken and sent to boarding schools where they were not allowed to speak their native language and forced to take Christian names.

12. Carlisle Boarding School
Pennsylvania

13. Assimilation: Plains Indians became more Americanized (like whites).

14. Impact on the American Indians
Indian homelands were reduced through treaties broken by the U.S. Government.