13 - 2 : Native Americans Struggle to Survive

1. 13-2: Native Americans Struggle to Survive Attempts to coexist were abandoned, and removing Native Americans from their lands became standard policy.

2. Anticipatory Set Suppose Mr. Shuler, Mrs. Power, and all the OPA professors are being replaced. The new staff is changing all the rules of the school. Also, 100 students are going to be brought in from another school. How do you feel about this change?

3. California Standards • Standard 8.12.2: Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.

4. Input • travois: small sleds. • tepee: cone-shaped tents made of buffalo skins. • reservation: land set aside for Native Americans to live on. • Sitting Bull

5. Research Main Idea & Details Fold 1 paper into 6 sections for notes. Write down the section heading and the main idea. You will fill in the details at the end of the lesson.

6. Input • People of the Plains • Native Americans of the Plains relied on the buffalo to meet many basic needs. • After the Civil War 360,000 Native American lived in the West.

7. Input • Broken Treaties • Treaties to protect Native American lands were quickly broken and wars broke out. • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 promised to protect native American land if they agreed to stop following buffalo herds. • The Sand Creek Massacre • helped ignite an era of war. • Among the most feared • soldiers were the Buffalo • Soldiers, African American • veterans of the Civil War.

8. Input • Last Stand for Custer and the Sioux • Warfare continued even as some Native American nations tried to adapt to life on reservations. • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led attacks to keep whites out of the land set aside for them when gold was found in the Black Hills. • Colonel George Armstrong Custer and all of his men died at the Battle of Little Bighorn

9. Input • Last Stand for Custer and the Sioux • Warfare continued even as some Native American nations tried to adapt to life on reservations. • Safari Montage • Last Stand at Little Big Horn • Hundreds of Cheyenne & Lakota warriors ambushed Custer…(2 min 26sec)

10. Input • Other Efforts at Resistance • Efforts by Native Americans to preserve their traditional way of life did not succeed. The Navajos & the “Long Walk” Geronimo & the Apaches Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce

11. Input • Other Efforts at Resistance • Efforts by Native Americans to preserve their traditional way of life did not succeed. Safari Montage Freedom: A History of US Chapter 2: The Final Confrontation (4 min 24 sec) Sitting Bull & the “Ghost Dances”

12. Input • The Failure of Reform • The Dawes Act encouraged Native Americans to become farmers, but it failed Safari Montage West: The Ghost Dance Chapter 3: The Outcome of our Earnest Endeavors…. The Dawes Act of 1887… (1 min 33 sec)

13. Research INDEPENDENT WORK Read pages 458-463 in the History textbook. Take more detailed notes based on the “big idea” concepts just introduced.

14. HOMEWORK CONNECTION • Complete 13-1 Section Quiz • Write a detailed SUMMARY of the section and complete the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS section of your notes. • Choose two of the remaining Depth & Complexity ICONS in your notes and explain how they relate to this section.