2. Plains Indians—Assessment concepts
Genesis & essence of the conflict between Europeans/Americans and American Indians?
Common Themes of Plains Indians.
Dominant Native American cultures of Great Plains.
What are the Periods of Federal Indian Policy?
What are the short-term & long-term implications of major Treaties, Policies, court cases and Acts?
What was/is the motivation for these Government actions?

3. Plains Indians assessment questions—
3. What are the reasons & implications of Poverty on many of Montana’s Reservations.
What are some of the indicators, predictors and costs of Poverty for all people?
4. What is the Legal Justification for the Cobell Lawsuit?
-Do you interpret this ruling as supportive or not supportive of traditional democratic ideals?

4. NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN/FIRST PEOPLE CULTURE AREAS

6. BLACKFEET

7. CURRENT BLACKFEET RESERVATION--USA

8. SIOUX—HORSE & BUFFALO CULTURE!

9. NATIVE PEOPLE AND FIRE
HORSE RACING

11. TRADITIONAL SIOUX TERRITORY—Minnesota and the Dakotas

12. CURRENT SIOUX RESERVATIONS IN YELLOW

13. CHEYENNE---WYOMING AND COLORADO

14. CHEYENNE

15. COMMANCHE—NORTH TEXAS

16. COMMANCHE—TRADITIONAL TERRITORY

18. COMMANCHE BISON HUNTING---GEORGE CATLIN

19. Common Theme?
HORSE
BUFFLO/BISON
NOMADIC: for a reason
Warfare…..

20. DOGS AND NATIVE PEOPLE—BEAST OF BURDEN, PROTECTION, TRANSPORTATION & FOOD

21. THE WOLF CAME IN TO SIT BY THE MANS FIRE---GENETIC DIVERSITY!

22. Its hard to believe, but Snigglet , Bob, Timber and Lucy share almost identical DNA with a Wolf!

23. MADISON BUFFALO JUMP!

24. PLAINS INDIANS—HORSE AND BUFFALO CULTURE

25. THE KEY TO PLAINS INDIAN SURVIVAL

26. ALCOHOL, GUNS, METAL, HORSE!

27. AGREEMENT OF 1851/FORT LARAMIE TREATY:
POLICY OF CONCENTRATION/DIVIDE AND CONQUER

28. FORT LARAMIE TREATY--1851

29. SIOUX MORALITY: RED ROAD OR BLACK ROAD? YOU DECIDE….

30. AMERICA 1854—THE KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT:
*RAIL ROAD
*FARMING
*INDIANS LOSE 18.5 MILLION ACRES.

31. 1859 COLORADO GOLD RUSH!

32. GOLD RUSH--

33. SAND CREEK MASSACRE/CHIVINGTON MASSACRE—1864:
GOLD AND THE CIVIL WAR

34. SAND CREEK---FEAR & FRUSTRATION FUELS THIS MASSACRE

35. SAND CREEK MASSACRE

36. MASSACRE PAINTING BY WITNESS, HOWLING WOLF--1864

37. Detail from The Sand Creek massacre, painted on elk hide by Northern Arapaho artist Eugene Ridgely

39. “THE BLOODY BOZEMAN”

40. “THE BLOODY BOZEMAN”—PIONEER FEMALE WESTERN WRITER & MISSOULA RESIDENT, DORTHY M. JOHNSON

43. SIOUX--CRAZY HORSE
??? Legend says he was Never photographed—photo on left may be C.H.
“he was a gentle warrior, a true brave, who stood for the highest ideal of the Sioux. Notwithstanding all that biased historians have said of him, it is only fair to judge a man by the estimate of his own people rather than that of his enemies.
Pencil drawing of CH

44. “You are fools to make yourself slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack and a little sugar and coffee
*Sitting Bull
“…to Christianize and civilize the Indian and to train him in the arts and peace”
*President U.S. Grant