Chapter 18

Section 3

Native American Struggles

Indian LifeMoved 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

Railroad slaughtered for foodKept from blocking trains

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

Geronimo• In 1886, the last

Native American to formally surrender to the United States. (Apache Indian)

Battle of Little BighornBlack Hills of the Dakotas:“No white person shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy.” Sitting BullGold was found… would not sell…Little Bighorn River…George Custer & his men lost their lives.

Indians later lost and Sitting Bull fled to Canada.

SittingBull

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

310 Indian Reservations in U.S. today

Wounded Knee

#22

South Dakota …1890240 Sioux and 25 soldiers killed after a gun was firedGhost Dance – ritual dance they thought was a war danceSitting Bull killedMarked the end of armed conflict b/t whites & Indians

*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:

HelenHunt 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.”