HOW DID WESTWARD EXPANSION

IMPACT NATIVE AMERICANS

VOCABULARY

Treaties

Sitting Bull

Ghost Dance

Dawes Act

Wounded Knee

Natural Resources

Relocation

Assimilation

Reservations

Little Bighorn

Chief Joseph

Impact

ONLINE RESOURCES

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/six/

OPPOSITION TO WESTWARD EXPANSION BY

NATIVE AMERICANS

Battle of Little Bighorn P. 545-546 textbook

In 1868, Americans broke a treaty

with the Sioux Native Americans

over the rumor that their lands in

the Black Hills of the Dakotas

contained gold.

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Click on image for

reading/video on

Crazy Horse

BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN…CONT.

The Sioux refused to give up their lands and joined forces with the Cheyenne Native Americans to stand up to the United States.

The United States send Colonel George Custer and his army to round up the Sioux and relocate them onto a reservation

A battle took place on June 25, 1876, Custer and all his men were killed.

This was the one major Native American victory over the United States

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OPPOSITION TO WESTWARD EXPANSION

BY NATIVE AMERICANS

Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux Chief

“I do not want to sell any land. Not

even this much.” he said holding a

pinch of dust.

“If we must die, we die defending

our rights.”

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Click on CD image for

Sitting Bull song…

OPPOSITION TO WESTWARD EXPANSION BY

NATIVE AMERICANS

Geronimo, Apache Leader P. 546 in textbook

Southwest Region

1880’s

Geronimo escaped the

reservation and fled to Mexico

He returned with a band of

followers and led a series of

attacks against settlers in

Arizona

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Read the New York Times obituary

for Geronimo on February 18,1909

Click on book to

research Geronimo’s life

FORCED RELOCATION FROM TRADITIONAL

LANDS TO RESERVATIONS

Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce P. 546 textbook

1877

Nez Perce, Tribe of Native Americans

Refusing to relocate to a reservation in Idaho, he traveled with his people for three months in an attempt to escape to Canada

He was forced to surrender just 40 miles from the Canadian border

Along the way, he earned the respect from many white settlers for his humane treatment of others

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Click here to learn about Chief Joseph…

OVERVIEW: IMPACT OF WESTWARD

EXPANSION ON THE NATIVE AMERICANS

Reduced population through warfare and disease

Battle of Wounded Knee

Video – America: the Story of Us; History Channel; “The Last of the Sioux”

Note: any graphic images are recreations of the events made for educational purposes.

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OVERVIEW: IMPACT OF WESTWARD

EXPANSION ON THE NATIVE AMERICANS

Assimilation Attempts How did they try to make Native

Americans change so that they would be

more like the “white man?”

The Dawes Act

Lifestyle Changes

Reduction of the Buffalo

Population

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OVERVIEW: IMPACT OF WESTWARD

EXPANSION ON THE NATIVE AMERICANS

Reduced their homelands through treaties that were broken

As soon as a valuable natural resource was discovered in Indian territory, the US would break the treaties they signed with the Native Americans and force them to relocate…again.

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