PPT-Subjugation of Indians in the West

APUSH Spiconardi Buffalo Kill every buffalo you can Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone Lt Col Richard Irving Dodge US Army Buffalo After the introduction of the horse by the Spanish Native American culture shifted. What is your image of the cowboy?. What was the “real cowboy?” – many “Vaqueros”. Why the image?. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s . Wild West Show. Dime novels. Movies (. Great Train Robbery. Introduction. When the Civil War crashed to a close, the frontier line was still going westward. Between the jagged line and the settled areas on the Pacific slope, there were virtually no white people. The few exceptions were the islands of Mormons in Utah, and the trading outposts, and gold camps, and several scattered Spanish Mexican settlements throughout the Southwest. . After The Civil War. Review Questions. What minerals were found in the West that attracted settlers?. Gold . and silver. Copper. Iron. Zinc. C. oal. What are the Rocky Mountain states?. WY. CO. MT. ID. I. Introduction. Frederick Jackson Turner. Land pulled the people. Frontier generated qualities of Americans. Individualism, self-help and courage. Orderly movement west. W.P. Webb. Movement erratic. Section 2: Westward Expansion & the American Indian. Text Notes. By the end of the Civil War, about 250,000 Indians lived in the region west of the Mississippi River. Referred to as “the great American desert”. Although, they were lumped together as Indians in the minds of most Americans. Native Americans embraced many different belief systems, languages, and ways of life. . Part 1 The American Indians. Indians migrated from Asia over 10,000 years ago. The landscape of the American Continent. Indian land. Europeans discover America 1492. Indians are pushed west onto the Plains as the Europeans settle in the east. pictures: part 3. Free land on the Plains. Propaganda and promises. Go west!. Cheap land offered by railroad companies. Immigrants from Europe, escaping poverty and persecution. Homesteaders from the Eastern States and European immigrants work hard to farm the windswept Plains. The American Myth. What is it?. What is the Myth of the West?. Is the myth the landscape or the people?. England=knights. Japan=Samurai. France=Musketeer. Spain=Conquistador. America=. West=area west of the Mississippi River. American Indians in the West. Do Now. What are some of the consequences for Indians due to the rapid decline of the buffalo population?. Photo from the 1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer.. A California Gold Mine in 1849.. Where Americans settle and why. http://mcdc-maps.missouri.edu/totalpop1790-2010/images/1910.jpg. Any of you ever been out West? Through Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas?. Before we begin learning, please ensure that you:. Are standing behind your desk in silence;. Have your learning diary and pencil case on your desk;. Have a smart uniform.. Please be seated in SILENCE.. Westward expansion was an inevitable and positive process.. Westward expansion was immoral and unfair because of the way it affected Native Americans.. Westward expansion was a process of its time and cannot be judged by modern standards.. Starter: . Using the information from last lesson. Can you explain how Little Bighorn led to the Ghost Dance?. Challenge: . What was the Ghost Dance?. In this lesson, we will:. Explain two consequences of the Dawes Act.. How are West Indians Represented in thechive? evised fromPanama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, & the Making of Modern Caribbean Literature(fall 2013): Rhonda Cobham University of Miami; and Le