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1 Chapter 18 Section 3 Native AmericanAmerican Struggles

2 Indian Life Moved to reservations Women cooked, caretakers, prepared hides Ghost Dance was a ritual dance Religion based on spiritual power of natural world Buffalo supplied their needs #20

3 Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains

4 He killed over 4,000 buffalo in 18 months. Hired by the railroad to prevent the buffalo from blocking trains & for food. In 1872 killed them for their hides. William Cody Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull

5 Geronimo In 1886, the last Native American to formally surrender to the United States. (Apache Indian )

6 Battle of Little Bighorn Black Hills of the Dakotas : Dakotas “No white person shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy.” Sitting Bull Gold was found… would not sell… Little Bighorn River… George Custer & his men lost their lives. Indians later lost and Sitting Bull fled to Canada.

7 Sitting Bull Leader of the Sioux Indians. Shot and killed during a scuffle over the Ghost Dance.

8 310 Indian Reservations in U.S. today

9 WoundedWounded Knee #22 South Dakota …1890 240 Sioux and 25 soldiers killed after a gun was fired Ghost Dance – ritual dance they thought was a war dance Sitting Bull killed Marked the end of armed conflict b/t whites & Indians

10 *Break up reservations *Indians become farmers *Children go to white-run boarding schools *Some reservations would be sold to support schooling *reservations divided-poor land - Indians #24 Plan for the Indians:

11 Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson “It makes little difference…where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.”


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