1.6 Native Americans and the Plains Wars

The buffalo were too dangerous to hunt.

The buffalo population shrank.

They chose a different lifestyle.

Settlers took over their farms.

They were left alone by the government.

They were protected by the government.

They all died fighting in battles against white settlers.

They lost their land and were forced to move to reservations

cavalry conflicts

Indian assaults

Plains Wars

western wars

Homesteads

Reservations

Settlements

Territories

Chief Joseph

Geronimo

Sitting Bull

Wild Boar

John Babcock

George Armstrong Custer

Robert E. Lee

William T.Sherman

The Battle of Little Bighorn

The Battle of the Black Hills

The Battle of Nez Percé

The Battle of Oklahoma

He continued to fight until his last breath.

He attempted to negotiate a peace treaty.

He surrendered and vowed to never fight again.

He fled to Canada with his tribe.

Dawes Act

Farm Act of 1865

Homestead Act

Resettlement Act

a.  it took tribal lands from Native Americans, cut them into family-sized parcels, and sold leftover land to whites

a.  it put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans

a.  it gave free land to white settlers

it allowed the railroads to build on private land