Lifestyle of the Plains Indians

Historic land agreements with Indians

Reservations

Slaughter of the Buffalo

            Impact on Indians

The Indian Wars

            Sand Creek Massacre

            Fort Laramie

            Little Big Horn

The Nez Perce

            Chief Joseph

Mining Towns

            Working conditions

            Early Organized Labor

            Caminetti Act

Mormon Settlements

            Persecution and beliefs

Borderland Communities

            social conflict (Anglos v. Mexicanos)

Cowboys- lifestyle

Cowgirls and Prostitutes

Lynching/ frontier justice

The Homestead Act

Populating the Plains

            Who came ?

Work

 Dawn to Dusk

New Production Technologies

            John Deere, Cyrus McCormick

Morrill Act of 1862/ Hatch Act of 1887

California Agribusiness

Impact on Environment

Nature’s Majesty

            Rocky Mountain School

The Legendary Wild West

The “American Primitive”

Reform Policy and Politics

            A Century of Dishonor

            Dawes Severalty Act

The Ghost Dance

            Wounded Knee

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