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Native American Life
Open Range Era
The Great West
U.S. Gov't vs. Tribes
U.S. Gov't vs. Tribes (cont'd)
100
An essential animal to the Native American lifestyle
What is the buffalo?
100
Group that influenced American cowboys
What are the Spanish vaqueros?
100
This attracted Americans settlers to the west, specifically California.
What is gold and silver?
100
The reason why the Native American way of life was changed forever in the late 1800's
What is the invasion of white settlers?
100
An incident where some group is killed by another; this occured at Sand Creek.
What is a massacre?
200
The animal that helped the Native Americans to travel more efficiently
What is the horse?
200
Animals that became big business in late 19th century America.
What is cattle?
200
Name of the grassland that extended through the west-central portion of the U.S.
What are The Great Plains?
200
These are the ways of how federal government’s land policy differed from the 1850s.
What is the creation of treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe?
200
The plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.
What is assimilation?
300
Job of the male Native Americans in their societies.
What are hunters or warriors?
300
The overland transport of animals lasted about three months
What is long drive?
300
People responsible for the destruction of buffalo in the Great Plains.
Who are white settlers?
300
The treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River in 1868.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
300
Americans believed that Native Americans forfeited their rights to ___.
What is their land?
400
Job of the female Native Americans in their society
What is preparing food and bearing children?
400
This ended the open range
What is overgrazing or bad weather?
400
The reason for the high demand of beef from the west
What are rapidly growing cities?
400
The act that Congress passed in 1867 that would "Americanize" the Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Battle that ended the Indian wars and brought an entire era to an end.
What is the Battle of the Wounded Knee?
500
The type of government in Native American tribes
What is counsel?
500
The major cattle route that ran from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas
What is Chisholm Trail?
500
American colonel who reported that there was a gold rush in the Black Hills.
Who is George A. Custer?
500
How Native Americans acted when the federal government changed its land policy.
What is the continuation of hunting on their land?
500
Important leader of the Sioux tribe who died in the Battle of the Wounded Knee.
Who is Sitting Bull?