1. Culture Clash Homework: 202-211
Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a Native culture or individual

2. Lakota Dream Song

3. Reading Threat to Black Voters
Free Blacks Celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation
Defeat at Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Killing of Wallace Fowler
An Indian Account of the Battle of Little Bighorn
Memorial of a Cherokee Nation
Emancipation Proclamation

4. Plains Culture
Great Plains- vast grasslands in central and western united states
Highly developed Native Culture (Osage, Iowa, Lakota, Cheyenne…)
Spanish Introduce horse and guns and transforms their culture
Then westward migration forces further change

5. Government reaction Native Americans don’t respect boundaries set
Massacre at Sand Creek…Cheyenne believing they are at peace are attacked mostly women and children killed
Lakota Chief Red Cloud unsuccessful negotiates end to settlement on Bozeman Trail
Crazy Horse leads ambush against soldiers (Fetterman Massacre…Battle of 100 Slain)

6. General S.R. Curtis West US Army Commander
“ I want no peace till the Indians suffer more”

7. Bloody Battles
Treaty of Fort Laramie – Sitting Bull only Sioux not to sign
Reservations become problem for hunting culture
Red River War- Kiowa and Comanche
Gold in Black Hills
Custer last Stand – Battle of the Little Bighorn. Led by Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull flees to Canada with his people but starvation forces them back…Joins “Buffalo Bill”

8. Assimilation Natives would be accepted if they gave up culture
Dawes Act- Sell properties to Native Americans who wished to become “Americanized”- breaks treaties of reservations.
Destruction of Buffalo
Massacre (Battle) at Wounded Knee- Use of Cannons, starving and Freezing, Ghost Dance Movement, 300 dead in a few minutes

9. Cattle Ranching Vaqueros to cowboys Home stead and Open range
Driving Cattle
25% Black 12% Mexican
3 month long drive
Barbed Wire ends Open range. Large impact on Mexican cattle ranchers.

10. Nuevomexicanos and Californios are promised fair treatment
As more Easterners moved in power was taken away.

11. Summary Question
What were the vast grasslands called in the central and western United States?
What was the Lakota movement to restore Native Culture?
What was the Battle/Massacre where 300+ Sioux are killed in a few minutes?
Colonel who was killed at the Battle at Little Bighorn?
What was passed to encourage native Americans to assimilate and purchase property?
What Chief went from defeating Union forces at Little Bighorn to becoming a circus act for Wild Bill?

12. Art- Buffalo Chase- George Catlin (1832)
When Catlin painted this there were 15 million buffalo on the great plains
By 1885 they were nearly extinct

13. Art – Photography- Chief Joseph by Edward S Curtis
Chief Joseph leader of Nez Perce (Oregon)
Outmaneuvered Army for 4 months before surrendering

14. Stampede 1908- Fredric Remington