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CONQUEST OF THE WEST - Coggle Diagram
CONQUEST OF THE WEST
Natives
1871: end of the Treaty System (between The Federal Govt and Chiefs - to keep their land) - moved to reservations
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Westward Expansion
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Agriculture: farming, "agrobusiness"
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Women's role: cleaning, farming, chicken
Campaigns to kill buffaloes: skins, to eliminate the natives "genocide policy"
In the "Wild West"
"wild" = untouched, not humanized, unbuilt, not modernized ; savage, lots of animals, not civilized, untamed, naturally energetic
Reality
Multicultural: Mexicans, Chinese, Slaves
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American mythology
The myth of the Frontier by Frederick Jackson, 1893
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mainly Caucasian, Hispanics, Indigenous
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gunslingers : pointy horseriding boots, "spur" & the heel, jeans pants, longsleeved shirt, a jacket and a cowboy hat, bandana
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