Essay
The Development of the West
In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate...
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Glossary Term – Event
Battle of Little Bighorn
In the war against western Sioux, General George Custer and more than two hundred of his men died along Montana’s Little Bighorn River at the hands of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
Glossary Term – Event
Wounded Knee
US troops slaughtered about 200 Sioux, many of whom were women and children, at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
Glossary Term – Person
Sitting Bull
Teaching Resource
June 25, 1876: An Interpretation of an Historical Event
Essential Question
How should events from the Indian Wars be commemorated by the federal government?
BackgroundThe Battle of Little Bighorn was one in a series of conflicts that occurred during the American attempt to remove native tribes from the West. Between 1850 and 1890, the United States military subdued numerous tribes through a concerted effort to destroy the buffalo and disrupt hunting patterns. The battle along the Big Horn River emerged from transgressions of...
Teaching Resource
Nineteenth-Century Native American Viewpoints
Objective
Identify and compare the ideas of major Native American leaders from the nineteenth century.
Evaluate the impact of those ideas on the United States and Native Americans.
Locate the original and final reservation territory for each of the Native American tribal groups represented in the excerpts.
Materials
Documents
(Shawnee) Chief Tecumseh, “Address to General William Henry...