Important People
This US General was killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is General George Armstrong Custer?
General ______ was the person who urged Standing Bear to sue the US Government.
This was the biggest victory for the Native Americans in the Plains Wars. (Hint: It was also where Custer died)
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What is civilize?
This is the name of one of the boarding schools that Native children were sent to.
This spiritual leader of the Sioux turned himself in to secure land and food for his people.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The two new tribes to Nebraska in the 1800s were the __________ and the __________.
Who are the Winnebago and the Santee?
This means of transportation scared off the buffalo and also brought buffalo hunters with it. It made travel easier, but it led to the demise of the buffalo...
The US Government forced Native Americans onto _________, or set aside land, and threatened to kill them if they left.
What are reservations?
The outcome of the Standing Bear VS Crook case was in favor of...
Who is Standing Bear?
This leader of the Oglala Sioux people was a great warrior. He had a vision that he would never be killed in battle and it came true!
Who is Crazy Horse?
This was the journalist who wrote about the Standing Bear case and got it nationally noticed.
Who is Thomas Henry Tibbles?
This event brought ten thousand miners to the Black Hills in one year!
What is the Gold Rush?
What are treaties?
This is the name of the act that was passed that turned Native American lands into small homesteads called Allotments.
What is the Dawes Act?
This conservationist was a kind of anti-hero in history... He helped save the buffalo, but he was rude to Native Americans.
Who is William Temple Hornaday?
This man started his own agency in Nebraska in order to remain peaceful and follow the law.
Who is Red Cloud?
This was the name of the march of the Ponca people from their homeland in Nebraska to a desert in Oklahoma. The trip was 500 miles and 9 people died!
The Native Americans gave this name to the 9th and 10th Cavalry members that they had great respect for. These soldiers were all former slaves who fought in the Civil War.
What are buffalo soldiers?
What are the railroad, diseases, or overhunting?
This person led his people on the long, sad Trail of Tears and eventually sued the US Government for how they treated the Ponca people.
Who is Standing Bear?
This President passed the Allotment Act that divided reservations into land for settlers.
Who is President Grant?
This is the name of the war between the US Government and the Native Americans.
President Grant divided tribal land into __________, or small homesteads, and gave away more land.
What are allotments?
This is the name of the Omaha chief that helped Standing Bear get back home.
Who is Joseph LaFlesche (Iron Eye)?