3. 1598 the Spanish introduce the …

4. America 1819

5. America 1834

6. Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 Sitting Bull didn’t sign Established a reservations Promised supplies

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

8. The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 Chief Sitting Bull Gen. George Armstrong Custer Lakota forces led by Crazy Horse kill Custer & all of his men.

9. Indian Policy focuses on Assimilation Indian boarding schools like Carlisle Dawes Act (1887) broke up reservations and gave 160 acres to each Indian household to farm Sold remain land to settlers, supposedly holding money in trust for Indians

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

11. Arapahoe “Ghost Dance”, 1890

12. Wounded Knee, South Dakota 300 Sioux were killed

13. Indian Reservations Today What happened to the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota?

14. Mt. Rushmore: Black Hills, SD

15. Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD Lakota Chief

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

18. Where the Buffalo Roam…No More White settlers hunted Buffalo for sport Buffalo population 1800 - 65 million 1890 - 1000 1900 - 1 herd left, sheltered in Yellowstone Park and Catalina Island

20. The disappearance of the buffalo made room for… The longhorn Originally from Spain Used to dry grasslands Sturdy and for the… cowboy

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

22. “Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull

23. skills, techniques, and tools were from Mexico the cattle ranch dated from Spanish days Origins of the cattle and cowboy “culture”

24. Who were the cowboys? 25% were black 12% were Mexican

25. Black Cowboys

26. Colt.45 Revolver God didn ’ t make men equal. Colonel Colt did!

27. Demand for beef booms after the Civil War growth of northern cities spread of railroads

28. Railroads could transport cattle to big city meat packing centers, especially Chicago Railroads could transport the meat all over the east But the cattle had to get to the railroad… The long drive

29. Cattle trails and cattle towns Sedalia

30. End of the cattle boom overgrazing barbed wire long periods of bad weather