Westward Expansion

Databases

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Gale Student Research

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Websites

Westward Expansion Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

Native Americans

Native American Indian and Western Expansion of the United States

The Plains Indians

How the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Changed the Plains Indian Tribes Forever

“ . . . The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here; you are taking my land from me; you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live. Now, you tell us to work for a living, but the Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not interfere with you, and again you say, why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them.” Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux, circa 1874

“If any individual belonging to [the Sioux Nation] . . . shall desire to commence farming, he shall have the privilege to select . . . a tract of land within said reservation . . . [which] shall cease to be held in common, but . . . may be occupied and held in the exclusive possession of the person selecting it, and of his family, so long as he or they may continue to cultivate it.” Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Farmers

Farmers Face Hardships

Western frontier life in America

Life on the Farm

The American West **Use links on right for PRIMARY SOURCES

Miners

The Mining Boom!

The Gold Rush and Westward Expansion

Mining on the American Frontier

Buffalo

The American Buffalo

Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed