Wars for the West Word Scramble
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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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