Indian Battles and Policies

Native American Timeline Chart(for our class)

1. Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

2. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

3. Dawes Act (1887)

4. Wounded Knee (1890)

Starting here at the bottom!

Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

• Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (Pine Ridge Reservation)

• Sitting Bull• US 7th Calvary

• Ghost Dance raises fears of Sioux uprisings.

• Sitting Bull killed in an attempted arrest.

• His followers surrender and camp at Wounded Knee.

• Shots are fired; some 200 – 300 Sioux die (women and children included).

Lost Bird (Zintkala Nuni)

Adopted by Gen. Leonard Colby and his suffragist wife, Clara Bewick Colby.

Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

• Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (Pine Ridge Reservation)

For Honors Only

• Based on what has been discussed and what you have read answer the following question in your notebook:

Whose account regarding the events at Wounded Knee, the

US Military or Sioux Native Americans, do YOU think is the

most accurate and why?

Indian Battles and Policies

Native American Timeline Chart(for our class)

1. Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

2. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

3. Dawes Act (1887)

4. Wounded Knee (1890)

Now we go here!

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)• Takes place at Fort Laramie (Wyoming)• Concerns Black Hills region of South

Dakota

• Lt. Gen. William T. Sherman (remember him?)

• Various Sioux tribes

• Sitting Bull refused to be involved

• Look at the treaty together to better understand what it says and how it impacts relations (as time allows)

• Land promised in Black Hills.

• NAs also get clothes, education, and farming equipment.

• Government’s Goal: Assimilate the Natives

Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

• Sioux of the Northern Plains – Dakota, WY, and MT territories (Black Hills Region)

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Lt. Col. George A. Custer

• US Govt. triesto buy the gold-rich Black Hills from Sioux.

• Talks fail and Custer’s 7th Calvary sent to round up the Sioux.Video Clip from Files

• Troops meet up with large number of Sioux.

• Custer and 200 men killed in “Custer’s Last Stand.”

Dawes Act (1887)

• Impacts all Native American Tribes within the United States

• Put into effect by US government (Congress)

Dawes Act (1887)- Impact

• Forces Native Americans onto reservations

• Gives land directly to people within a tribe

Native American ReservationYsleta Del Sur, El Paso, TX

Native American Reservation Ysleta Del Sur, El Paso, TX

Dawes Act (1887)- Impact

• Forces Native Americans onto reservations

• Gives land directly to people within a tribe

• Increases the assimilation process into American culture through education - Zitkala-Ša’s Video

Video Questions

• What aspects of Zitkala-Ša’s education do you think are positive?

• In the late 19th Century, few white people thought that saving Native American culture was worth preserving. Why do you think this was the case?

What differences do you notice?

Barb Wire

• Credited to Joseph Glidden (1874), the “Father of Barbed Wire”

• Nicknamed “The Devil’s Rope” because of the damage it did to livestock when they encountered it for the first time

Keys to Farming on the Plains

• John Deere – high quality farm equipment to work the plains.

• Cyrus McCormick – developed the reaper for working the large crops.