1. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 26: Part 1
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

2. Native American Conflict
Tribal conflict due to forced migration
Intentional spread of disease
Overhunting of buffalo
Reservation system established
Sioux Reservation
Left alone and given “supplies”

3. Reservation System

5. Sand Creek Massacre (1864) J.M Chivington
400+ killed (including women and children)

6. Fetterman Massacre (1866)
Sioux blocking Bozeman trail killed and mutilated Fetterman’s troops and civilians
Led to increased tension

7. Treaty of Ft Laramie (1868) Bozeman trail abandoned
“Great Sioux Reservation” established

8. Battle of Little Bighorn (1874)
Gen. Custer leads group into Black Hills, SD  gold rush
Sitting Bull led Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne to victory against Colonel Custer
Custer and 265 troops killed in less than an hour
“Custer’s Last Stand

9. Other Tribes Geronimo – Apache Chief Joseph – Nez Perce
Chased into Mexico
Reservation in Florida and Oklahoma
Chief Joseph – Nez Perce
Tried to escape being forced onto reservation
1,700 mile journey to meet Sitting Bull
Reservation Kansas, then Idaho

10. Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)
“Wounded Knee Massacre”
200 Lakota Sioux killed
End of “Ghost Dance”
White man would leave and buffalo and ancestors would return
Prelude to war?

11. Dawes Severalty Act (1877)
Individual allotments of land to Native Americans
Extra land given to government
Goal: Assimilation
Excluded 5 Civilized Tribes