American History - Taming the Natives...

Multiple Choice, for terms

15 Million

How many Buffalos were there in the mid 19th century?

Less than 1000

How many Buffalos were there in the 20th century?

Left as dead carcasses

What happened to buffalos shot by train passengers and other people for fun?

About 4300 in eight months

How much Buffalo did Buffalo Bill Cody kill?

Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

Happened in S.E., Colorado. When the CO government thought of Cheyenne Indians hunting out of starvation as an Indian Uprising. Colonel John Chivington is sent to kill the natives. As men are out to hunt, defenseless women, children, and the old are massacred. (Due to the time period, Chivington is given a parade for his mass murder)

Battle of Little Big Horn (06/25/1876)

Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacks a group of 2500 Sioux people in Little Big Horn with his 250 Cavalry (7th Cavalry).

G.A. Custer dies, public outrages (mad toward natives not Custer)

Sioux run to Canada for safety, but because of starvation they comeback to U.S. reservations.

Sitting Bull

Leader of Hunkpapa Sioux. Predicts G.A. Custer’s attack and comes up with the idea of Ghost Dance. Resists the US.

Dawes Act (1887)

Gives worthless land to natives (160 acres of bad quality). Additionally, the US government brought natives into reservations, but the food supplies weren’t handed out properly.

Ghost Dance (1890)

Sioux believes their ancestors would come one day and save their tribe. They dance to quicken that D-Day

Great Plains

Grassland in west-central america, where the Plains Indians lived.

Treaty of Fort Laramite

Treaty where the sioux agreed to the U.S. government on living in reservations.

Assimilation

The belief is that Native Americans should give up their way of life and accept white cultures.

Battle of Wounded knee (12/28/1890)

The 7th Cavalry killed ~300 natives for doing and spreading Ghost Dances (had the goal of bringing the position of the 7th Cavalry back up as well).