HIST 2350 Lecture : Notes
2 Apr 2014
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The last frontier: oliver howard and the nez perce, the sand creek massacre (1864, red cloud and lieutenant fetterman, custer and the cheyenne, little big horn (1876, sitting bull and crazy horse, the dawes act (1887) and carlisle (1879, wounded knee (1890, wovoka (from the paiute) and the ghost dance. Oliver o. howard(cid:224) known as christian general: had been head of freedmen"s bureau (in charge of rehabilitating the south and african americans, assigned to work in the west, nez perece was fleeing the federal army after they tried to resist the whites on their lands territory. Crazy horse is killed in 1877, same year sitting bull flees to canada but returns to the states not on his own terms: sitting bull briefly joins the travelling show of buffalo bill"s wild west(cid:224) very strange because bill was a confederate soldier as well, sitting bull becomes part of american entertainment culture, becomes disgusted and returns to standing rock.
