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Indians since CW
Relations with Native Americans since the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Forced Indian leaders to give up land around Pike's Peak and assigned reservations to various tribes | Medicine Lodge Treaty |
| Killing of 450 Cheyenne Indians by Colorado Volunteers although the village had raised the white flag | Sand Creek or Chivington Massacre |
| Mandated that the US abandon its forts along the Bozeman trails and guaranteed the Lakota Sioux their possession of land including the Black Hills "as long as the grass shall grow" | Fort Laramie Treaty |
| Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated vastly Custer's outnumbered forces | Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Hundreds of Indians killed after they had surrendered their weapons; regarded as the "Last Stand of the Indians | Battle of Wounded Knee |
| Fighting between Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse after gold was discovered in the Black Hills on Indian reservations | Sioux War of 1876 |
| Belief that the world would soon end and that special shirts would stop bullets | Ghost Dance Movement |
| Fighting when Red Cloud fought the US army to a stalemate and forced the government to abandon its forts along the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming and Montana | Sioux War of 1865-7 |
| Detailed the mistreatment of Indians by the US government | A Century of Dishonor |
| Split up tribal lands into individual allotments in an attempt to assimilate Indians to white ways of farming | Dawes Severalty Act |
| Leader of the Nez Perces during the hostilities between the tribe and the US Army in 1877 | Chief Joseph |
| Led troops who massacred 450 Cheyennes at Sand Creek in Colorado | Colonel Chivington |
| Sioux chief who led the Sioux in the battles of 1876 and who helped lead the forces at Little Big Horn | Sitting Bull |
| Inspired the Ghost Dance movement which believed that the world would soon end and living and dead Indians would unite and inherit the earth | Wovoka |
| Wrote about broken treaties between the United States and Native Americans | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Made all Indians citizens without impairing their status as tribal members; still few were permitted to vote | Citizenship Act of 1924 |
| 1934 law that provided funds to help rebuild Indian culture and political life. Land was returned to tribal ownership | Indian Reorganization Act |
| Indians who fought in World War Two taking advantage of the fact that their language was unwritten and indecipherable to the Japanese | Navaho code talkers |
| Approach to relations with Indians in the 1950s, aimed at liquidating the reservation system and integrating Indians into American society | Termination Policy |
| Site of uprising by American Indian Movement where they occupied offices demanding that the federal government honor treaties. The FBI attacked and 2 Indians and 1 agent were killed | Wounded Knee |
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betsynewmark