HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Horse Culture, Ghost Dance, Dawes Act
Document Summary
First westerners: border tribes, plains, southwest, northwest, pacific northwest=california, oregon, etc, plains tribes: nomadic hunters, horse culture, buffalo. Used buffalo for everything, used bones, the hide: anglo-american migrations conflict. Collaboration ended when the colonists wanted the land the native americans had. Santa fe trail was used as a trade route. Great plains called the great amazing desert: overlanders . Going over the land, the sea of grass, west, to become miners. Gold rush (1849) there was a devastating winter and the cattle couldn"t get to the water,etc, thousands of cattle died, Native americans tribe felt defeated, their land was vanishing and resources were disappearing. Native americans started raiding wagon trains: commercial farming, challenges- not enough water, real estate busters were convincing people the rain fall has changed, people had to sell their farms due to insufficient land. Native (western) americans: vanishing land & shrinking resources for native peoples.
