Cultures Clash on the Prairie
Great Plains
Native Americans lived on it
It's in the west-central portion of the United States
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River
Sitting Bull (a name)
Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux
Never signed a treaty
George A. Custer
United States army officer
Sitting Bull defeated army troop led by him
Assimilation
A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
Dawes Act
Aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans
Broke up reservations but gave some of the reservation land to individual Native American family for farming
Failed!!! Native Americans had little success farming (no success)
Battle of wounded Knee
Brought the Indian war (and an entire era) to a bitter end
Army troops(7th cavalry) killed more than 300 unarmed Sioux
Longhorn
Chisholm Trail
Long Drive
A sturdy, short-tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grassland
Brought to the Americas by Spanish
Became a big business after the Civil War
The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas
Thirty-five thousands head of cattle were shipped out
Business more than doubled
The journey from the plains to the shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas
Hire cowboys to drove the cattle to Abilene
One cowboy for every 250 t0 300 head of cattle