1. Important Local Events:
Read pages , answering …
(1) Difference between “Indian cultures” and “white people” values associated with land?
(2) By the late 1860’s, many Native Americans had been placed on …
(3) What developments threaten Native American civilizations?
1874 – Custer Black Hills Expedition
– Black Hills Gold Rush
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn
1877 – Black Hills Cession
1879 – American Indian Boarding
School Movement (first Lakota children taken)
1883 – Court of Indian Offenses
1887 – Dawes Act
1889 – Sioux Act of 1889

2. “The West & The Gilded Age”
1870
1890
1900
Important things to understand about this era in U.S. History:
** Time of Individualism
Legislation developing the West: Homestead Act, Land Grant Act, Pacific Railway Act
1870’s and 1880’s - Settling the Plains, Custer’s Black Hills Expedition (1874), Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
1860’s to 1890’s - Wars between U.S. Government and Lakota / Dakota / Nakota / Cheyenne
1890’s - Wounded Knee

3. The West

4. Great Plains

5. Homesteads
“Sod busters”
“Soddies”

6. Settling the West Dry farming methods … Impact … Seed drills …
Steel plow …
Mechanical reaper …
Windmills …
Threshing machines …
Mechanical
binder …
Impact …
Threshing machine
Seed drill
Steel plow
Reaper

7. Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

9. “Oceti Sakowin”: The People of the Seven Council Fires
- Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota

10. “Tiospaye” “Oyate” Nomadic … Impact of the horse … Buffalo …
Lakota Indian term for “extended family,” which provides the social support and material assistance.
“Oyate”
“The people”
“The nation”
“One large family”
Nomadic …
Impact of the horse …
Buffalo …

11. “Mitakuye Oyasin” “All are related”
“All my relatives" or “We are all related”
“Inter-connectedness”
It is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life: other people, animals, birds, insects, trees and plants, and even rocks, rivers, mountains and valleys.

12. Beliefs and Ideas Shape History!!!! Settling the Great Plains …
Verses
* Oceti Sakowin
* “Tiospaye”
- extended
family

13. Traditional Lakota Lands
Traditional homelands …

14. Assimilation
(1887) - Dawes Act – communal tribal lands divided into 160 acre allotments per family
Two cows and yoke of oxen
Farm tools
$20 cash
Seed for five acres for two years
40 Acres
40 Acres
160 Acre Allotments
40 Acres
40 Acres