1. The Cowboy Days

2. Study Questions for Test
What were real Cowboys like?
What was the real image for Native Americans?
What was the staple food for Native Americans? How did the whites use this as a means of wiping them out?
What was the Dawes Act?

3. The Real Cowboy Cowboy Life was boring and dull Survival was key
Rarely did they carry guns
Most worked on the open ranges rather than shoot ‘em up in the saloons
Ghostowns
Miners

4. Soddy

5. Native Americans Stereotypes of Indians (Not Christian)
Earth is their God and you can’t own God
Scalping
Buffalo was the staple food
Herd of a million could be heard for miles
Used all of the buffalo
Stomach/canteen

6. The 2nd Great Removal
Conflict with Native Americans as expansion begins
Reservations established
Federal Government protects them
Lose the right to negotiate land
Dawes Act
Force the Native Americans to live like whites
Indian land sold to white settlers (80 % of their land is lost)
Government boarding schools
Breakdown culture

7. Buffalo skulls for fertilizer Detroit

8. Buffalo herds before 1850
60 million