1. Fate of the Indians

2. Sioux Originally from Northern Minnesota Nomadic, hunted bison, skilled hunters & fighters on the horse Shared labor among husband & wife

3. Reservations Solutions Peace commission appointed in 1867 2 main areas = Dakota & Oklahoma

4. Undermining Tribal Culture Move Indians onto “the white man’s road” Justified severalty (land ownership) Dawes Severalty Act (1887) – Divided tribal land to 160 acres for each family – Rest of the reservation land would be sold & proceeds placed in a Indian educational fund

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

6. The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 Chief Sitting Bull Gen. George Armstrong Custer

7. Geronimo, Apache Chief: Hopeless Cause

8. Wounded Knee, South Dakota Sioux face the Dawes Severalty Act Wovoka, a holy man, preaches news of salvation Chief Big Foot gets ill & goes to Wounded Knee Army dies to disarm the Indians- battle happens, over 146 Indians die Final episode in the war against the Plain Indians – 20,000 Sioux in SD, used to be 400,000 in 1900 – 70,000 other tribes in OK, used to be 1,000,000 in 1907

9. Arapahoe “Ghost Dance”, 1890

10. Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890

11. Indian Reservations Today

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

13. Korczak Ziolkowski, Sculptor Crazy Horse Monument His vision of the finished memorial.

15. Regional Population Distribution by Race: 1900

17. Black “Exoduster” Homesteader s

18. Blacks Moving West

19. The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains

20. A Romantic View

21. The “Chinese Question”  Exclusion Act (1882) - Oriental Exclusion Act - Chinese Exclusion Act

22. African American & Chinese Populations: 1880-1900

24. The Traditional View of the West

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

26. “Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull

27. Legendary Female Western Characters Calamity Jane Annie Oakley

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

30. Yellowstone National Park First national park established in 1872.

31. National Parks

32. Conservation Movement John Muir With President Theodore Roosevelt

33. Sierra Club Founded in 1892