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This was the plan for getting Native Americans to leave their lands in the 1800s.
What is to move them onto reservations?
This is what the weather is like in the Pacific Northwest.
What is very wet?
This is what we call the event when American army officers attacked and killed a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
This is one of the things the Paiutes of the great Basin did frequently.
What is move from place to place?
This is how Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest passed on their legends.
What is carving totem poles?
This was a staple, or necessary, food for the Native Americans of the Great Basin.
What are pine nuts?
This is the word that means a symbol.
What is an emblem?
This word means to adopt the ways of another culture.
What is to assimilate?
This is the word that means a ceremonial gathering to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
What is a potlatch?
Chief Joseph is famous for this phrase.
What is "I will fight no more forever"?
This is the European disease that killed many Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
This is the battle in which George Armstrong Custer and all his soldiers were killed.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This is the reason the Great Basin got its name.
Why is it surrounded by mountains?
This is a word for a Native American leader believed to have special powers.
What is a shaman?
This region is dominated by grasslands.
What are the Plains?
This is the word for a group of families claiming a common ancestor.
What is a clan?
This is the reason that life on the Plateau was easier than life in the Great Basin.
What is an abundance of water, plants, and animals?
This was the main reason the US government had trouble making treaties with Native Americans.
What is the fact that the Natives had no central government to approve a treaty?
This is the word for a group of people who share the same language, customs, beliefs, and leadership.
What is a tribe?
This is what the land President Thomas Jefferson purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte of France after the Revolutionary War was called.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the effect of the climate on the habitat in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the effect of rainfall causing forests to grow full of plants and animals?
This is the battle that effectively ended the Indian Wars.
What is Wounded Knee?
This is the word for a plant or animal that is a respected symbol in Native American society.
What is a totem?
This is the reason the Nez Perce got together every spring.
What is to hunt salmon?
This was what the forced westward march of the Cherokee called.
What was the Trail of Tears?