1. Answer in your Notes Read pages 358-359, 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?

2. “The West”
1860s
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. Conveys “Manifest Destiny”
The painting is called “American Progress” by John Gast

5. Mexican-American War, 1846-48 & Mexican Cession
- U.S. decision to annex Texas in 1845 brings war.

6. Great Plains

7. Homesteads
“Sod busters”
“Soddies”

8. Settling the West by Non-Natives
Dry farming methods …
Seed drills …
Steel plow …
Mechanical reaper …
Windmills …
Threshing machines …
Mechanical
binder …
Impact …
Threshing machine
Seed drill
Steel plow
Reaper

9. Traditional Lakota Lands
Traditional homelands …

10. Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

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

13. Beliefs and Ideas Shape History!!!! Settling the Great Plains …
* Individual land ownership
Verses
* Manifest Destiny
* Oceti Sakowin
* “Tiospaye”
- extended
family

14. “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 …

15. “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.

16. “The Heart of Everything that Is”

17. Race Track – “The Great Race”

18. [1] Pages 1 – 8: What do we learn about the life of No Moccasins. Why
[1] Pages 1 – 8: What do we learn about the life of No Moccasins? Why? Have you known someone with similar attributes as this person?
[2] Page 9: Why did the Lakota culture, a culture that values humility, allow young men to brag about exploits in battle?
[3] Pages 9 – 12: Why did Crazy Horse demonstrate humility especially when considering that he was a war hero and he was supposed to brag? Why do you think he did this?
[4] Page 12: From the handout, “Humility can provide clarity where arrogance makes a cloud.” What is your response to this, and why do you think this quote is true? Or, why do you think it’s not true?
[5] Pages 13 – 16: What lessons are there in the story of Iktomi and Mato? Why do you think so?
[6] Pages 16-18: What lessons can we learn from the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman presented in this chapter?