Native Beliefs
Native Americans viewed the land as this family member.
What is their mother?
In 1803, the United States bought a huge amount of land from this country.
What is France?
This Native nation fought to remain on its territory in Georgia.
What is the Cherokee Nation?
These animals were hunted nearly to extinction to weaken Native Americans.
What are buffalo (bison)?
Native American children were forbidden to speak these at boarding schools.
What are Native languages?
European Americans believed land should be used for farming, logging, and finding these valuable underground materials.
What are mineral resources?
This purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Chief John Ross took the Cherokee case to this court.
What is the Supreme Court?
This Lakota leader helped resist U.S. expansion on the Great Plains.
Who is Sitting Bull?
(Also Red Cloud or Crazy Horse.)
Captain Richard Pratt opened this famous boarding school in Pennsylvania.
What is the Indian Industrial School (Carlisle School)?
Native Americans believed the earth should be shared by everyone in the __________.
What is the community?
President Andrew Jackson signed this act in 1830 forcing many Native Americans westward.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Georgia ignored the Supreme Court ruling because this valuable resource had been discovered on Cherokee land.
What is gold?
The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie granted land north of this river to Native nations.
What is the Platte River?
Pratt believed the United States should destroy Native Americans’ __________ instead of killing people.
What is their culture?
European Americans believed land could be bought and sold by an individual or this type of group.
What is a company?
The Homestead Acts gave away more than this many acres of Native American land to settlers.
What is 160 million acres?
Thousands of Cherokee died during this forced journey west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Colonel George Armstrong Custer was defeated near this river in 1876.
What is the Little Bighorn River?
Geronimo led this Native American group in resistance in Arizona.
What are the Chiricahua Apache?
This major difference in beliefs about land caused harm and destruction for Native peoples.
What is ownership of land?
Between 1848 and 1855, about 300,000 Americans traveled west during this event.
What is the Gold Rush?
Name one of the Five Civilized Tribes.
What is Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, or Seminole?
The U.S. government broke approximately this many Indian treaties signed between 1778 and 1871.
What is 368?
Today, Native American nations work to preserve these two important parts of their identity.
What are their culture and languages?