Culture Clash

• Homework: 202-211

• Extra Credit: Research make poster or power point and present information about a Native culture or individual

Lakota Dream Song

Reading• Threat to Black Voters• Free Blacks Celebrate the Emancipation

Proclamation• Defeat at Bull Run• Battle of Gettysburg• Killing of Wallace Fowler• An Indian Account of the Battle of Little Bighorn• Memorial of a Cherokee Nation• Emancipation Proclamation

Plains Culture

• Great Plains- vast grasslands in central and western united states

• Highly developed Native Culture (Osage, Iowa, Lakota, Cheyenne…)

• Spanish Introduce horse and guns and transforms their culture

• Then westward migration forces further change

Government reaction• Native Americans don’t

respect boundaries set• Massacre at Sand Creek…

Cheyenne believing they are at peace are attacked mostly women and children killed

• Lakota Chief Red Cloud unsuccessful negotiates end to settlement on Bozeman Trail

• Crazy Horse leads ambush against soldiers (Fetterman Massacre…Battle of 100 Slain)

General S.R. Curtis West US Army Commander

“ I want no peace till the Indians suffer more”

Bloody Battles• Treaty of Fort Laramie – Sitting

Bull only Sioux not to sign• Reservations become problem

for hunting culture• Red River War- Kiowa and

Comanche• Gold in Black Hills• Custer last Stand – Battle of the

Little Bighorn. Led by Sitting Bull

• Sitting Bull flees to Canada with his people but starvation forces them back…Joins “Buffalo Bill”

Assimilation• Natives would be accepted

if they gave up culture• Dawes Act- Sell properties

to Native Americans who wished to become “Americanized”- breaks treaties of reservations.

• Destruction of Buffalo• Massacre (Battle) at

Wounded Knee- Use of Cannons, starving and Freezing, Ghost Dance Movement, 300 dead in a few minutes

Cattle Ranching

• Vaqueros to cowboys

• Home stead and Open range

• Driving Cattle

• 25% Black 12% Mexican

• 3 month long drive

• Barbed Wire ends Open range. Large impact on Mexican cattle ranchers.

• Nuevomexicanos and Californios are promised fair treatment

• As more Easterners moved in power was taken away.

Summary Question

1) What were the vast grasslands called in the central and western United States?

2) What was the Lakota movement to restore Native Culture?

3) What was the Battle/Massacre where 300+ Sioux are killed in a few minutes?

4) Colonel who was killed at the Battle at Little Bighorn?5) What was passed to encourage native Americans to

assimilate and purchase property?6) What Chief went from defeating Union forces at Little

Bighorn to becoming a circus act for Wild Bill?

Art-Buffalo Chase- George Catlin (1832)

Art – Photography- Chief Joseph by Edward S Curtis

Stampede 1908- Fredric Remington