1. Chapter 5 Cultures Clash on the Prairie
Could be a bell-ringer if needed

2. Settlers Push Westward
Culture of white settlers differed greatly from Native Americans
Sought new land, gold, PROFIT!
Natives believed land could not be owned

3. Settlers Pushed Westward
Whites argued the Natives had forfeited their rights to the land b/c they hadn’t settled down
Most native tribes were nomadic
Why were they nomadic?

4. Settlers Pushed Westward
How do you think natives benefited from the use of horses? (Introduced to them by the Spanish in the 1500’s)
How do you think the settlers and natives differed in their purposes for hunting buffalo?

5. Clash
1834  Federal government designated the Great Plains as land set aside for Native Americans
1850’s  Government further restricts tribes to individual areas
How do you think the Indians reacted?

6. Massacre at Sand Creek
U.S. Army Commanders attack a Cheyenne camp and kill 150 Indians, mostly women and children

7. Death on the Bozeman Trail
Crazy Horse (Sioux) attacks white settlement on the Bozeman Trail
80 U.S. soldiers killed
Battle of the Hundred Slain OR Fetterman Massacre
Which name was given by whites?

8. Red River War 1874-1875  Comanche continue to resist white expansion
U.S. military ordered to place friendly tribes in reservations
Hang all warriors
Burn villages
Bring women and children to camps

9. Custer’s Last Stand
Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull kill all of Custer’s men at the Little Bighorn River
Sioux were later defeated
Sitting Bull forced to surrender to save his people from starvation

11. Check It Out Page 205  Shrinking of Native Lands
Page 207  Importance of Buffalo
Page 206  A Personal Voice

12. What should be done with the Indians?
Debate
Use the information from your notes and Chapter 5 (Especially section 1)
Get out a sheet of paper
Write your designated role at the top
Mediators
Native Americans
White settlers
Work as a group to create arguments for your side
Make each person a character
For example: You could be the wife of a white settler or a Native American child

13. Government Supports Assimilation
Native Americans would give up beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
1887  Dawes Act
Aimed to “Americanize” the Indians
Why is this ironic?