Wars for the West

Chapter 18, Section 2

Pioneer Trail Junior High

Hunting Buffulo

Plains Indians – photo

Buffalo Hides in 1870 Est. 30,000,000 in 1804 – only 300 left in 1894. It then became illegal to kill a buffalo.

Innocent Slaughter for sport Easy way to end the Plains Indians

"Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance." - General Philip Sheridan

Signing of the Treaty of Laramie

Indian Reservations in the 1880’s

Crazy Horse Memorial Statue in forefront, mountain in back

Question: Was he a hero? Does he deserve a national monument?

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Kiowa Chief SantankaMedicine Lodge Treaty

“I have heard that you intend to set apart a reservation near the mountains. I don’t want to settle; I love to roam over the prairie; I feel free and happy; but when we settle down we get pale and die.… I have told you the truth. I have no little lies about me; but I don’t know how it is with the Commissioners. Are they as clear as I am? A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers; but when I go up to the [Arkansas} river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo; and when I see that my heart feels like bursting; I feel sorry.”

Chief Sitting Bull

“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one.”

General George CusterHero or Villain?

Battle of Little Big Horn site today

Burial of Indians at Wounded Knee Right, Wrong or retaliation?

The Long Walk – 300 miles 200 Navajo died along that 300 miles.

Geronimo – with warriors, as a labor camp prisoner and before his death in Oklahoma

Chief Joseph – hero and humanitarian

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Paiute women performing the Ghost Dance Religious leader Wovoka, who saw the Ghost Dance Vision