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Wars for the West
Chapter 2 Section 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | The first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians |
| reservations | areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans |
| Crazy Horse | The leader of the Sioux Indians that ambushed and killed 81 cavalry troops |
| Treaty of Medicine Lodge | The treaty that led to most southern Plains Indians agreeing to live on reservations |
| buffalo soldiers | African American cavalry |
| George Armstrong Custer | a Lieutenany Colonel who discovered gold in the Black Hills of the Dakotas |
| Sitting Bull | a leader of the Lakota Sioux who protested the United States demands for the land |
| Battle of the Little Bighorn | Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | the last major incident on the Great Plains |
| Long Walk | a 300 mile march where the Navajos were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico |
| Geronimo | a Chiricahua Apache who avoided capture for many years |
| Ghost Dance | a religious movement that predicted the arrival of paradise |
| Sarah Winnemucca | a Paiute Indian that gave lectures on problems of the reservation system |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | tried to lessen traditioanl influences on Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared |
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