Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
The Missionaries.
This disease was the culprit in 1782 which killed 90+% of the indigenous population in the NW.
Smallpox
This British Company was a prominent trading partner with indigenous peoples in the NW
Hudson Bay Fur Company
These men went on an expedition out west to document their journey for Washington D.C. in 1804.
Lewis & Clark
Narcissa Whitman wrote to her mother that she worried the Cayuse would bring what insect into her house?
Fleas.
These groups of people wanted to maintain their traditional ways of life and live in their homelands.
Indigenous peoples.
This disease was the culprit that killed many Cayuse in the fall of 1847.
Measles
This American Fur Company was the competitor of Hudson Bay Co.
Pacific Fur Company
This group of peoples were not asked their perspective in the discussion over control of Oregon Country in 1846.
Indigenous peoples.
In the fall of 1847, Joe Lewis told the Cayuse that he had overheard these plans from the Doctor and Spaulding.
They would poison them and take their land.
Profit was the goal for this group. That, and finding the cutest otters they could to trap.
The Fur Traders
The Cayuse people ate these poisoned food items causing them to become very sick and mistrust the doctor.
Melons & meat.
Furs were a desirable item that were exported to which country?
China
After a treaty in 1846, Great Britain & the US split control over Oregon Country according to this land marker.
The 49th parallel.
In Cayuse culture, this is what happens to a medicine man who gives bad medicine.
He is killed.
The US Government and Oregon Trail Settlers both believed it was their god given right to populate and farm the land out west. The vocabulary term for this belief is...
Manifest Destiny
Doctor Whitman was killed when he was doing what?
Reaching into a cabinet to get medicine.
In addition to overhunting, this is the second reason the fur trade died down.
Fur hats were no longer as fashionable.
Great Britain & The United States agreed to share Oregon Country after this war.
The War of 1812.
The Cayuse & Whitmans had culture clashes in the ways they viewed food gathering, praying, privacy, property ownership and this activity common among new neighbors.
Gift giving.
This country saw the NW as useful for its natural resources, but not necessary for colonization.
Great Britain
Whitman's ineffective treatments for disease included calomel, bleeding, and this item sometimes used as an ingredient for chili.
Cayenne Pepper.
The Hudson Bay Company employed workers called Kanakas from this island kingdom.
The San Juan Islands were the focus of this porcine war in 1859 over control of the land.
The Pig War.
The Cayuse Chiefs told the Oregon Governor that if he forgets the Whitmans' killings, they would forget the killing of the son of Walla Walla Cheif Peopeomoxmox in this state.
California.