Chap 2 notes indians and Gold rush Flashcards
Horse and buffalo
Spanish broughht horses 1598
Gave indians mobility
Indians le farms to roam plains and hunt bufalo
Increased mobility often lead to war
Counting coup
Sometimes warring tribes would call a tuce so they could trade goods, share news or enjoy harvest festivals
Culture of plains indians
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Great plains: the grassland extending through the west central portion ofU.S.
To the east,near Missouri were the Osage and Iowa tribes
Planted crops and settled small villages
Farther west: nomadic tribes such as the Sioux and Cheyenne
Gathered foods and hunts buffalo
Counting coupe
Indians touch enemies with stuck they get bragging rights?
Culture and food
Native a ericans made tepees from buffalo hides and also used skins for clothinf shoesand blankets
Buff meat was dried into jerky or mkxes berries and at to make pemican
Men became warros
Believed powerful spirits controlled events in world
Medicine men who showed sensitivity to spirits
:shaman
Children learned proper behavior through stories and mythsor games
Pemican
Food stable foor indians
Made from …
Culture conflict
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Indians: land cant be owned
Many differnt land
Settlers argued that since they handn’t setteled or improve it
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Gov restricts indians
1834
Passed an act that degonated the great plains as one enormous reservationset aside for indian tribes
1850 changed that
Gold rush …
Massacre at sand creek
1864
Most of cheyeneehad peacefully returnes to the sand creek resrv for winter
Us army generL S.R Curtis sent telegraph”I wantno peace unrill indians suffer more
John chivington and troops killed over 150 people mostly wemen and childrenx
Death death on boseman trail
Boseman trail ran directly through sinoux hunting grounds in big horn mts
The soux tribe, red cclous, has unsucc apeaked to the goto end white settle on teail
Dec 1866 crazy horse ambushed captain william J Fetrerman and his company at lodgetrail ridge
Over 80 soldier milled
INdian s: “battle of the hundred slain”
Ehites: “fetterman massacre”
Gov closed rei
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sinoux agreed tp live on resv along missuri river
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Ended Red Cloud’s War
Siting bull
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Leader of the hunkpapa sioux who never signed treaty
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Red river war
1874 and 1875
Kiowa and Comanche began 6 years of raiding that eventually led to red river war
US army responds to raiding by hurting people on friendly tribes and shooting others
General ohillip sheridan gave orders “destory villages an doonies to kill…
Gold rush
Withen 4 years of laramie jnees, began searching the black hills for gold
Custar’s last stand
In june1976
Sioux and cheye held sun dance
Siting bull had vision of soldiwrs and indian falling from horses
When colenel custer and his troups reachees the little bighorn river indians waited for them
Crazy horse and his troups defeated custar
Wwithen a hour custar amd all his men were dead
Eventually sioux were beaten
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
An writer and poet that became an activist that wanted improved treatment of Native Americans.
Wrote “ A Century of Dishonor”it exposed many of the government’s broken promises
Assimilation
A plan in qhich native americans would give up their way of life to become loke whites
Tourist and fur teaders
Shot buffalo for sport
Pg 207
1800- 65million buff
1870-1000 buff
Battle of wounded knee
Dec 28 1890 7th Calvary rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux.
Withen min 7th slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unarmed Sioux.
Battle of wounded knee brought the indian WARS TO END.
What caused conflict between the lakota sioux and us government acording to worksheet textbook?
The lioka sioux conducted raids against white settlers for yearsbecause they moved to,sioux lands
Importance of horse to native Americans.
Helped to increase mobility of indians
Brought from spain
Brought more wars but also community
Indians used bows on horses and were very skilled
