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| great Indian leader, Sioux, refused to sign second Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 |
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| discovered gold in 1874 in Indian territory, led attack on largest Indian camp ever and was annihilated |
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| Apache leader who refused to listen to whites and repeatedly led raiding parties, eluded US with band of women and children among his warriors for months before being sent away as prisoners |
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| colored folks moving west, mainly to Kansas, to get their own land |
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| William F. Cody/ Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show |
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| romantic depictions of western history that helped create the myth of the Old West as shown in modern media |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner/frontier thesis |
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| American character was always made on the frontier because it defined who we were/are as a people, proponent of imperialism essentially |
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| U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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| supposed to administer to the needs of Indians on reservations, but it was weak and poorly managed |
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| Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Custer's last stand, also last stand for Sioux, largest massing of Indian tribes |
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| 1887, divided up reservations and alloted parcels of land to individual Indians as private property, sold "surplus" to whites, remained in effect till 1934 when Indians could own land communally again |
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| Indian religious movement that predicted that if they all danced all the time then the whites would go away |
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| over 200 killed in tragic misfire (similar to Boston Massacre pre-Revolutionary War) when Sitting Bull was killed after joining the Ghost Dance when his people were fleeing the scene |
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| got rid of any more Chinese immigration, effectively killed off Chinese population in America after a few generations because they were mainly male with no family life |
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| killed free range herding of cattle across the west to trading centers |
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| combination of agriculture and business; large plantations, sharecropping, mechanization, and all that jazz/shit |
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