WARM UP (3RD PERIOD )

Pick up reading on buffalo from the bin and answer these questions on your warm-up sheet:

-How is the buffalo important to Native American life?

-How do the settlers’ values regarding the buffalo differ from the Native Americans?

READ “BUFFALO DUSK” SILENTLY TO YOURSELF AND

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

WARM UP4TH PERIOD

Lesson Question

How did non-Native American cultures

impact Native Americans?

Vocabulary

AssimilationBarb WireDawes Act

ReservationsWounded Knee

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

Takes place at Fort Laramie (Wyoming)

Concerns Black Hills region of South Dakota

Land promised in Black Hills. NAs also get clothes,

education, and farming equipment.

Government’s Goal: ASSIMILATE THE NATIVES

Assimilation methods in Treaty of F.L.

Each male, 14 yrs+ receives: “a suit of good substantial woolen clothing,” hat, new shirt, & socks, etc.

Each female, 12+ receives: flannel skirt, woolen hose, 12 yards of cotton domestics, etc.

“For the period of4 years after he shall have settled upon…reservation, 1 lb of meat & 1 lb of flour per day”

Is the Treaty upheld??

NO!

1874: General George A. Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills w/miners seeking gold

Prospectors quickly moved to the Sioux' sacred land

US continued battle against Sioux in Black Hills

1877: gov’t finally confiscated the land

CloserCome up with 2 bumper stickers or

slogans that would memorialize the Treaty of Fort Laramie. State

whose perspective you are representing for each

Ex: FORT LARAMIE: A WAY TO GET LAND! (US military)

Ex: Fort Laramie: The Treaty that Changed Our Lives Forever (Native Americans)