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    Annie Oakley 1

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    Michael of Russia to a shooting match. Though the Grand Duke was noted for being an excellent wing shot‚ Annie Oakley beat him‚ missing only three birds out of fifty‚ while he missed fourteen. (AnnieOakleyFoundation.org) The great Sioux warrior Chief Sitting Bull was so impressed by Oakley ’s skill that he adopted her‚ giving her the name "Watanya Cecilia"--"Little Sure Shot." Though her life inspired dime novels‚ a Broadway play‚ and Hollywood movies‚ little is known about the real Annie Oakley‚ an intensely

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    The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century Chapter 5 Changes on the Western Frontier The culture of the Plains Indians declines as white settlers transform the Great Plains. Meanwhile‚ farmers form the Populist movement to address their economic concerns. Next Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century Chapter 5 Changes on the Western Frontier SECTION 1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie SECTION 2 Settling on the Great

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    settlement of the west

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    cornered 30 miles from safety and he surrendered in 1877. Sitting Bull : One of the leaders of the Sioux tribe. He was a medicine man " as wily as he was influential." He became a prominent Indian leader during the Sioux Was from 1876-1877.( The war was touched off when a group of miners rushed into the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1875.) The well-armed warriors at first proved to be a superior force. During Custer’s Last Stand in 1876‚ Sitting Bull was " making medicine" while

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    Ush Chapter 5-6

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    Crazy Horse --> Captain William J. Fetterman @ Lodge Trail Ridge Battle of Hundred Slain Whites call it "Fetterman Massacre" :Custer 1874 - Black Hill has gold --> gold rush :1876 - Crazy Horse‚ Gall‚ Sitting Bull vs Custer’s troops (Custer dead‚ lost) :Late 1876: Sioux beaten --> Sitting Bull to Canada --> surrender for ppl’s starvation :1868 Treaty :Treaty of Fort Laramie :Gov - close the Bozeman Trail :Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River

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    American History -Indians.

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    Cited: Sitting bull (MLA format) “Sitting bull - Tatanka-Iyotanka (1831-1890)” (on-line) c2001: Nov‚11 2012 <http://middle.usm.k12.wi.us/faculty/taft/unit5/westwebquest/sittingbull/resources.htm> "The Song of Hiawatha." American History through Literature. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover

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    Little Big Horn Bat

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    tleThe US army lost the Battle of the Little Big Horn because of the mistake made by General George Custer The battle of little big horn took place on 25th June 1876. All 210 soldiers in General Custer’s force were killed by Indians led by sitting bull. The Battle began because the white settlers and the Native American’s lived in peace but the American’s started to abuse their trust with the Native American’s as they started to dig for gold‚ as the gold was discovered in the Rocky mountain and

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    The Battle at Wounded Knee

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    started to represent the “Ghost Dance” which brought fear to some of the US. They thought the Indians have gone crazy‚ and they needed to kill them for protection. The military took action by killing Sitting Bull on December 25th‚ and Big Foot was going to be the next one killed. Big Foot heard about Sitting Bull’s death and led him and his tribe to the south. They tried to settle at Pine Ridge reservation‚ but the US stopped the plan and they retreated to the edge of Wounded Knee. Not long after did

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    Americans‚ the U.S. Army decided to invade this lands led to the battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. To the Sioux tribe‚ they decided to fight for their rights and preserve their reservation from white man; therefore‚ under the command of Sitting Bull‚ they were ready for combating so they left their reservation and gathered in encampments along the Little Bighorn

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    Wounded Knee Massacre

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    “Wounded Knee Massacre” Melinda Belcher May 2‚ 2010 In 1848 a series of gold and silver discoveries signaled the first serious interest by white settlers in the arid and semiarid lands beyond the Mississippi‚ where many Indian nations had been forced to migrate. To open more land‚ federal officials introduced in 1851 a policy of “concentration.” Tribes were pressured into signing treaties limiting the boundaries of their hunting grounds to “reservations” The Sioux tribe was limited to the

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    The Ghost Dance

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    The Ghost Dance In January 1889‚ Wavoka‚ a Paiute Indian‚ had a revelation during a total eclipse of the sun. It was the genesis of a religious movement that would become known as the Ghost Dance. It was this dance that the Indians believed would reunite them with friends and relatives in the ghost world. The legend states that after prayer and ceremony‚ the earth would shatter and let forth a great flood that would drown all the whites and enemy Indians‚ leaving the earth untouched and as it

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