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The Cowboy Days

The Cowboy Days. Study Questions for Test. What were real Cowboys like? What was the real image for Native Americans? What was the staple food for Native Americans? How did the whites use this as a means of wiping them out? What was the Dawes Act?. The Real Cowboy.

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The Cowboy Days

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  1. The Cowboy Days

  2. Study Questions for Test • What were real Cowboys like? • What was the real image for Native Americans? • What was the staple food for Native Americans? How did the whites use this as a means of wiping them out? • What was the Dawes Act?

  3. The Real Cowboy • Cowboy Life was boring and dull • Survival was key • Rarely did they carry guns • Most worked on the open ranges rather than shoot ‘em up in the saloons • Ghostowns • Miners • http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=9626

  4. Soddy

  5. Native Americans • Stereotypes of Indians (Not Christian) • Earth is their God and you can’t own God • Scalping • Buffalo was the staple food • Herd of a million could be heard for miles • Used all of the buffalo • Stomach/canteen

  6. The 2nd Great Removal • Conflict with Native Americans as expansion begins • Reservations established • Federal Government protects them • Lose the right to negotiate land • Dawes Act • Force the Native Americans to live like whites • Indian land sold to white settlers (80 % of their land is lost) • Government boarding schools • Breakdown culture

  7. Buffalo skulls for fertilizerDetroit

  8. Buffalo herds before 1850 • 60 million

  9. http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=7545

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