1. Problems with Manifest Destiny The Native Americans

2. Clash of Cultures  Settlers’ view: Western resources were there to be used (large scale use)  Plains Indians’ view: saw settlers as greedy and destructive (resources used for necessity)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuXMBXSAOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuXMBXSAOc  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZTE-nEfyw

3. Fighting  Settlers passed through restricted areas  Indians raided white settlements and wagon trains  Little Bighorn – most famous Indian war battle and last Indian victory (giving up Sioux land, gold mining)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okOYydNzmo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okOYydNzmo  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQLbhQxxFYI

4. Pushing Indians off their Land  The “Long Walk” – 1860s Navajo Indians forced to move from Arizona to New Mexico (Hundreds died)  The Trail of Tears – 1830s Cherokee Indians forced to move from Georgia to Oklahoma (one quarter of the Indians on trail died – out of 15,000)