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Indian People and Tribes
Indian Life
Leaders
Territory Years
Statehood
100
Name of the Indian woman who assisted Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
100
The idea of becoming like another culture and abandoning old beliefs.
What is Assimilation?
100
The Louisiana Purchase was bought from this leader of France.
Who is Napoleon?
100
Name Montana came from this Spanish word.
What is Mountains?
100
Montana became a state in this year.
What is 1889?
200
Famous Indian Wars battle where the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne had an overwhelming victory over the US troops led by Custer.
What is Little Big Horn?
200
Document that makes promises between nations; the US broke many promises they made to Indians in these.
What is a Treaty?
200
US President who made Montana into a Territory.
Who is Lincoln?
200
American Indian Tribe that allied with US Government, often acting as scouts.
What is the Crow?
200
President during WWII who built Fort Peck Dam.
Who is FDR?
300

Group of people that were both Indian and white that played a large role in the Fur Trade.

What is the Métis?

300
Writing in the form of a picture, common in Indian wall painting.
What is a Pictograph?
300
First woman to serve in the US Congress.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
300

Settled when gold was discovered and became the first territorial capital.

What is Bannack?

300
New technology that changed Montana by allowing goods and people to travel faster.
What is Railroad?
400
Indian Chief who promised to “Fight no more, forever.”
Who is Chief Joesph?
400
Process of dividing Indian land into lots to be sold to Homesteaders.
What is Allotment?
400
President who signed Montana into statehood.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
400
Now the largest city in Montana, it began as a railroad town.
What is Billings?
400

Two causes of the end of open-range cattle ranching.

What are harsh winters, over grazing, use of barbed wire?

500
Name five Montana Indian Tribes.
What is Kootenai, Salish, Pend d'Oreille, Shoshone, Crow, Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Cree and Chippewa, Sioux, or Northern Cheyenne?
500
Main goal of the Indian Boarding Schools.
What was to remove Indian culture?
500
Last names of the two business tycoons that fought over the location of the Montana Capital.
What is Clark and Daly?
500
Began as a mining town, and was the location of a terrible mine disaster in the early 1900s.
What is Butte?
500
Rule in Montana that allows the people to skip Congress to make new laws.
What is Initiative?