NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE GREAT PLAINS Native Americans
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NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE GREAT PLAINS Native Americans =_______________ -Bering Straits Land Bridge from ASIA (ASIATIC) during the ICE AGE Characteristics: • NEO-LITHIC – • ANIMISTIC – • COMMUNALISTIC – • HUNTER-GATHERERS – ____________!!!!! Native American’s pushed west to the___________. The GREAT PLAINS considered the GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. WHY? •
THE GREAT PLAINS Indians thrive on the Plains because of: • Dozens of tribes shared the Plains and fought one another for control of hunting grounds WHITES TAKE BACK THE GREAT PLAINS. WHY?
War on Native Americans • The “INDIAN WARS” 1862 -1890 – Whites begin – Indians are – #1 TOOL TO DESTROY THE INDIANS: • Destruction_________________ • Plains Indians needed the Buffalo for _____________________ • Whites kill MILLIONS OF BUFFALO – by 1886 __________________ • Whites consider Indians:
The End of the Native American Way of Life • Reservation Policy – Indians were forced onto RESERVATIONS. _________________________ • The BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN a. k. a CUSTER’S LAST STAND: ________________ –. • General George Armstrong Custer and his 7 th Cavalry attacks June of 1876. – ________________– Sioux leaders • Custer and ______________ • The Nation is outraged and vows to crush all Indian tribes
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian” General Phil Sheridan • AMERICANIZATION / ASSIMILATION • The US government decides to force assimilation on the Indians (AMERICANIZATION): • INDIAN TRIBES ABOLISHED • BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) Supposed to help the Indians • WOUNDED KNEE _____:
