Conflict With Native Americans

What was a major reason for the near extinction of the buffalo?

• Buffalo Soldiers need to feed the military

• White frontier settlers’ survival

• White men hunting for sport and profit

• Native American way of life

What Comanche leader helped transition many plains Native Americans to living on reservations?

• Quanah Parker

• Red Buffalo

• Chief Sequoyah

• Chief Joseph

What did the U.S. government fail to provide the Native Americans living on the reservations?

• Soldiers to protect them

• Buffalo to hunt

• Food and supplies

• U.S. money

Complete the graphic organizer above. What is another reason the Native Americans gave African Americans their nickname?

• Native Americans thought they were sent from the Great Spirit.

• They were fierce fighters.

• They built forts on the plains.

• They never spoke to the Native Americans.

What was the main purpose of forts built on the western frontier?

• To build community farms

• To provide military in case the Mexico attacked

• To provide cattle to the settlers

• To protect the settlers from Native Americans

What is a treaty?

• An agreement between two nations

• An agreement between two people

• An agreement between a nation and a person

• An agreement between a nation and a state

Complete the graphic above. What changed all of these locations on western lands?

• Western forts

• Railroads

• Buffalo hunters

• Red River War

Who wanted the western frontier plains that the Native Americans were living on?

• Frontier settlers

• Buffalo hunters

• Buffalo soldiers

• Civil War veterans

What was the result of the Red River War? (4.4D)

• Forts were destroyed and Native Americans were allowed to live and hunt on land in the Texas Panhandle

• All Native Americans died or were placed in prison

• Native Americans were forced to give up their way of life and live on reservations

• All soldiers were killed or retreated to southern forts

Who built the majority of forts in Texas after the Civil War? (4.4D)

• Native Americans

• The Freedmen’s Bureau

• Civil War Veterans

• Buffalo Soldiers