Terms and Names
Distinctive and highly developed Native American ways of life existed.
What is a Great Plain?
Native American way of life began to change.
Why did Spanish brought horses to New Mexico in 1598?
One of the most tragic events occured in 1864?
What is Massacre at Sand Creek?
Used by government troops.
What is the Winchester ´76 rifle?
American settlers had never managed large herds on the open range, and the learned from their Mexican neighbors how to round up, rope, brand, and care the animals.
What are Vaqueros and Cowboys?
Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Often lead to war when hunters in one tribe trespassed on other tribe hunting grounds.
What is the increase of mobility?
The Federeal Gov. had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plainsas one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes.
What is 1834?/ What is Gov. policy toward the Native Americans?
War broke out yet againas teh Kiowaand Comanceh engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War.
What happend in late 1868?
Surdy , short-tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain.
What are Longhorns?
Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Who was Sitting Bull?
What is coup?
The Sioux Chief had unsuccesfully appealed to the government to en the white settlement on the trial.
What is the Bozeman Trial?
Within four years of the Treaty of Fort Laramie, miners began searching the Black Hills for Gold.
What is the Gold Rush?
The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is Chisholm Trial?
Reported that the Black Hills had gold.
Who was George A. Custer?
Native Americans on the plaions usually lived in small extendedfamily groups with ties to other bands that spoke the same lenguage.
What is Family Life/ Family Structure?
Warriaor Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trial Ridge.
What happened on December 1866?
In early June 1876, the Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during wich Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some N.A falling from their horses. When Colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the N.A were ready for them.
What is Custer´s Last Stand?
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok and Martha Jane Bruke (Calamity Jane) where knowned as.
Who are the Legends of the West?
A plan under wich Native Americans would give up their belifs and way of life and become part of the white culture.
What is Assimilation?
Knew very little about the world east of the Mississippi River.
Who was Zitkala- Sa?
Had never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
Who was Sitting Bull?
Eventually, to prevent starvation, Sitting Bull was forced to surrender. Later, in 1885, he appeared in William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody´s Wild West Show.
What were the results of the Custer´s Last Stand?
Overland transport of animals often lasted about three months.
What is the Long Drive?