Vocab
A large expanse of land west of the Mississippi River and east of The Rockies
Great Plains
A house made out of blocks of prairie grass
A Soddy
A battle between a confederation of Lakota, Arapaho, and Cheyenne and William Fetterman's command.
The Fetterman Fight
A U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and American-Indian Wars
George A Custer
Where the Native Americans were relocated to after the American-Indian wars
Oklahoma
Exodusters
Buffalo/Bison
A massacre of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in November of 1864
Sand Creek (Chivington) Massacre
This person led the Native Americans that won the battle of wounded knee
Sitting Bull
A trail that runs through Wyoming and southern Montana north-south
The Bozeman Trail
The act that gave free land to any citizen that was the head of a household
The Homestead Act
A tribe living in present day South Dakota
A battle in southern Montana with American soldiers and Native American forces
Little Bighorn
The 18th President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant
A region in northern South Dakota which is home to the Sioux Native Americans
The Black Hills
The act that gave federal land to states so that they can fund agricultural colleges
The Morrill Act
Railroads spanning from the east coast to the west coast
Transcontinental Railroad
A massacre of about 300 Natives by the U.S. Army in southern South Dakota
Wounded Knee Massacre
A leader of the Oglala Lakota. There is also a monument being made for him in the Black Hills
Crazy Horse
The Ute, Navajo, and Hopi resided in this area in the southwestern U.S.
Four Corners (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico)
Single crop farms of 15,000 to 50,000 acres
A bonanza farm
An act passed to "Americanize" Native Americans
The Dawes Act
An expedition by the U.S. Army to forcefully relocate The Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native Americans to Indian territory
The Red River War (1874-1875)
Chief of the Oglala Lakota
Red Cloud
Which Native American group lived in northwestern Montana, slightly west of where the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain took place
The Blackfeet