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culture clash on the prairie (Treaty of Fort Laramie (sioux granted…
culture clash on the prairie
the great plain
highly developed Native American ways
not improve the land
no rights to claim
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sioux Treaty of 1868
Closes the Bozeman trail
Sioux agree end protests of railroads
sioux granted
education
health
territory
agriculture
Sitting Bull
leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed
hope to use traditional hunting grounds.
George A. Custer
gold rush
Reports much gold in black hills
in 1874
Assimilation
War hawks
increase military presence
Destroy native opposition
Sympathizers
Assimilations
Dawes act
americanize natives
Gives land to individual native americans
natives americans receive only ⅓ of land, no money
Buffalo
destruction of buffalo most significant natives
Tourists fur traders shoot for sport destroy buffalo population
Battle of Wounded Knee
350 sioux taken to wounded knee creek
300 unarmed native americans died
end of the indian war
Morrill Act
1862 and 1890
help finance agricultural colleges
bonanza farms
single-crop spreads of 15,000–50,000 acres
slowly folded into bankruptcy
The end of open range
overgrazing
land is divided up with barbed wire
cowboys
originated in mexico
cowboys' work
care for horses
repaired fences and buildings
worked cattle drives
establish frontier towns