1. Warm Up #6
What would you do to save your culture? Explain

2. the
plains
indians

3. Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851)
Colorado Gold Rush (1859)

4. Sand Creek Massacre
“Kill and scalp all, big and little!” – Colonel John Chivington
Sandy Creek, CO Massacre November 29, 1864
150 innocent killed and no punishments to the commander.

5. The Fetterman Massacre
80 soldiers and Captain Fetterman massacred December 21, 1866
By Crazy Horse and Red Cloud

6. 2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868) Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek (1867)
Reservation Policy

7. Gold Found in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory!
1874

8. Gen. George Armstrong Custer
The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Chief Sitting Bull

9. Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)
Chief Joseph I will fight no more forever!
Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)

10. Geronimo, Apache Chief: Hopeless Cause

11. Indian Reservations Today

12. Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890
Some 300 Sioux men, women, and children lay dead.
This was a turning point for Native American resistance on the Plains

13. Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD
The Memorial does not accept federal or state funding. The project is financed by admissions and contributions.
Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD
Lakota Chief

14. His vision of the finished memorial.
Korczak Ziolkowski, Sculptor Crazy Horse Monument
His vision of the finished memorial.

15. Mt. Rushmore: Black Hills, SD

16. Carlisle Indian School, PA
Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Assimilation Policy
Carlisle Indian School, PA

17. the myth
& legend
of the west

18. The Traditional View of the West

19. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show

20. “Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull

21. The near extinction of the buffalo.
Destruction of the Buffalo Herds
The near extinction of the buffalo.