Objective:
•Describe the demographic shifts in the USA after the Civil War.
•How did the settlement of the West affect Native Americans?
Most N.A. on the Great Plains were nomadic – always moving from one place to another.
They followed their main source of food – the buffalo.
Created in 1867, it proposed creating large reservations for N.A. run by the federal government.
Ultimately unsuccessful
Whites disrupted hunting grounds, broke treaties guaranteeing lands, and forced N.A. to relocate.
Whites also slaughtered the buffalo
June 26, 1876
A large camp of Cheyenne and Sioux Indians defeated General Custer and 268 US soldiers.
“Custer’s Last Stand”
A Ghost Dance ritual swept through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1890 – striking fear in the authorities.
200+ Sioux men, women, and children are massacred by U.S. soldiers.