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Life on the Plains
Clash of Cultures
Battle of Little Bighorn
A Way of Life Ends
The Dawes Act Fails
100
Brought the first horses to the Great Plains
Who are the Spanish?
100
Huge territory that included almost all of the land between the Missouri River and Oregon Territory
What is the Indian Territory
100
Was discovered in the Black Hills
What is gold?
100
Native Americans of the Plains depended upon for survival
What are buffalo herds?
100
Published A Century of Dishonor, which listed the failures of the federal government's policies towards Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
200
Hunters traveled far from villages to hunt _______?
What is buffalo?
200
Based on the belief that white settlers were not interested in the Plains
What is Government policy?
200
2 chiefs that united to push back intruders
Who are Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse?
200
Killed more than one million a year from 1872-1882
What are hunters?
200
Adopting the culture of the people around them.
What is assimilation?
300
Turned into clothing, shoes, and blankets
What are buffalo hides?
300
Pressured federal government for more land and wanted protection from Native Americans
Who are white settlers?
300
Commanded seventh cavalry
Who is George A. Custer?
300
Plains tribes were forced onto by 1880's
What are reservations?
300
Intended to encourage Native Americans to give up their traditional ways and become farmers
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Wandering from place to place
What is nomadic?
400
Colorado militia opened fire on a peaceful Cheyenne village
What is Sand Creek Massacre?
400
Battle of the Sioux & Cheyennes with Colonel Custer's men
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
400
Preached of a vision of a new age in which whites would be removed and Native Americans would once again freely hun the buffalo.
Who is Wovoka
400
Did little to benefit Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
500
Central to the life of Plains tribes
What is buffalo?
500
Deadly ambush set by the Sioux in 1866
What is Fetterman Massacre?
500
"We did not give our country to you; you stole it."
Who is Sitting Bull?
500
Ended armed resistance in the West
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
500
Their lands had been taken and their culture was treated with contempt
Who are the Native Americans?