Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 20, Lesson 1: Changes on the Great Plains (pp. 504-507)
I. Plains Indian Life
B. As the numbers of Plains Indians increased after the 1600s, fighting broke out between different groups.
C. During the 1800s, Plains Indians came into conflict with white hunters who nearly destroyed the buffalo, and with it, the Indians' way of life.
II. The Life of Settlers
B. Life on the Great Plains was hard for settlers, who had to deal with harsh weather and insects while trying to build their homes.
C. Many immigrants also settled on the Great Plains.
III. Wars and Treaties
B. Sometimes they compromised and signed treaties with the U.S. government, which usually did not keep its promises.
C. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull killed Colonel George Custer and all his men at the Battle of Little Big Horn in an attempt to defend sacred Sioux lands, but they were eventually defeated.
D. Hundreds of Sioux were slaughtered in a massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The introduction of horses by the Spanish made it easier for Plains Indians to hunt buffalo.
A. Many former Union soldiers, white southerners, and African Americans moved west after the Civil War.
A. Plains Indians fought to keep their land.
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