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Life changed after the Civil War
Native Americans
Interaction and Conflict
All information taken from the curriculum guide; images from a variety of Google
images and audio/video taken from Unitedstreaming.com
The slaughter of the Buffalo
Moved to Reservations
clarke.public.lib.ga.us
Interaction
• opposition by American Indians to westward
expansion (Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull,
Geronimo)
• forced relocation from traditional lands to
reservations (Chief Joseph, Nez Percé)
• reduced population through warfare and
disease (Battle of Wounded Knee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC42z0cCf_U
&list=PL88639D52BD5FA0C7
Conflict:
Battle of Little Bighorn
• General George A. Custer
– Acting on his own initiative, he
launched a three pronged attack
against the largest groups of Native
American warriors ever assembled on
the Great Plains
– The Native American forces turned
on Custer and killed all of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5SXMKS1xU
Sitting Bull
• Led his people to victory at the
Battle of Little Bighorn
• After the victory, he took his people
to Canada to avoid the reservation
system
– In 1881; his people were facing
starvation he led them to Montana and
gave up his rifle hoping to show that he
became a friend of the Americans.
Geronimo
• Outnumbered by American and
Mexican forces
• Refused to acknowledge the
American occupation of the
American west.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Eum4xW4c4X8
Chief Joseph
– US government had taken 6 million
acres back from the Nez Perce after
the gold rush in 1864 restricting the
tribe to a reservation in Idaho, Chief
Joseph inherited this trouble.
– Surrenders to the US government and
moves his tribe to the Oklahoma
reservation where many died of disease
– 1879, he spoke with President Hayes
and his people were moved back to the
Northwest but not to Idaho but
another reservation in Washington
READ THE ARTICLE ON CHIEF JOSEPH