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Chapter 18

Native American Struggles. Chapter 18. Section 3. Indian Life. #20. Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains. William Cody Buffalo Bill . 1. Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull.

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Chapter 18

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  1. Native American Struggles Chapter 18 Section 3

  2. Indian Life #20

  3. Railroad slaughtered for food Kept from blocking trains

  4. William Cody Buffalo Bill 1 Buffalo Bill with Sitting Bull He killed over 4,000 buffalo in 18 months. Hired by the railroad to prevent the buffalo from blocking trains & for food. In 1872 killed them for their hides.

  5. 2 Geronimo • In 1886, the last Native American to formally surrender to the United States. (Apache Indian)

  6. Battle of Little Bighorn Black Hills of the Dakotas: “No white person shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy.” Sitting Bull Gold was found… would not sell… Little Bighorn River… George Custer & his men lost their lives. 3 Indians later lost and Sitting Bull fled to Canada.

  7. Sitting Bull 4 Leader of the Sioux Indians. Shot and killed during a scuffle over the Ghost Dance.

  8. 310 Indian Reservations in U.S. today

  9. Wounded Knee South Dakota …1890 240 Sioux and 25 soldiers killed after a gun was fired Ghost Dance – ritual dance they thought was a war dance Sitting Bull killed Marked the end of armed conflict b/t whites & Indians 5 #22

  10. Dawes Act The goal was to eliminate 2 weaknesses of Native American life: the lack of private property and the nomadic traditions. The goal was to encourage Indians to become farmers and eventually American citizens. #23

  11. *Break up reservations *Indians become farmers *Children go to white-run boarding schools *Some reservations would be sold to support schooling *reservations divided-poor land - Indians #24

  12. Helen Hunt Jackson “It makes little difference…where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.”

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