Acts
The Government wanted to civilize the Plains Indians. What agricultural occupation did they want them to become?
Farmers
In what year did chiefs no longer sign treaties?
1871
Warm coats
In 1890, Sioux rations were cut and a drought meant their crops failed. An Indian had a vision that if they all kept dancing, the Great Spirit would bring back the dead and a great flood would carry white people away.
What was the name of this dance?
The Ghost Dance
The Sioux were given a large reservation in South Dakota and could roam freely where?
Hint: Whites were not allowed to settle there or prospect for gold!
The Black Hills
What is the keyword for the following definition?
"Becoming part of US Society."
Assimilation
Indian children were sent where, to be taught white American values?
In 1871, a process was discovered for cheaply and quickly turning buffalo hide into what?
Leather
What slowed Big Foot's band down, enabling the army to catch up with them?
Snow and Pneumonia
Who led cavalrymen to protect the railroad builders and look for gold close to Sioux lands?
General George Custer
In 1890, the US Census office, part of the US government declared that there was no longer a frontier line between white settlement and 'wilderness' (Indian land). The USA had complete control of the west.
What did this lead to the closure of?
The Indian Frontier
Some Indians joined this force to control reservations. In return, they had better food, clothing and shelter than others on the reservation.
What force was it?
Indian Agency police
Wililam Cody was employed by the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company to clear buffalo from the tracks and supply workers with meat. He claimed he had killed 4,280 buffalo in just 17 months- giving him what nickname?
Buffalo Bill
After how many minutes did it take to kill 250 Indians including men, women and children, which led to the end of the Indian resistance?
10 minutes!
Prospectors staked their claims to the land. The US government offered the Sioux what two options?
Hint: They refused both offers and many bands left the Sioux reservation.
$6 million for the Black hills
or
$400,000 a year for the mineral rights *
*both needs to be answered for full points.
What act's aim was to encourage individual Indians to assimilate and become US citizens?
The Dawes Act 1887
Name two living conditions on the reservations that led to the death of Plains Indians.
Any two from the following:
-Rations were poor
-Crops failed
-Poor medical care
-Diseases were common
Special 'what' brought people onto the Plains to hunt buffalo for sport?
Excursion trains
Wounded Knee
In December 1975, the Sioux were given ____ days to return to their reservation or be attacked. There was deep snow and it was impossible to travel.
How many days were they given?
60 days
The following terms and conditions are part of the Dawes Act. Complete the sentence:
Indians who took their allotment and left the reservation could then become...
American Citizens
Who was sent into reservations to 'civilize' the Indians by putting an end to feasts, dances and ceremonies?
Christian missionaries
In 1840, there were around 13 million buffalo on the Great Plains. By 1885, how many were left?
200
Sitting Bull was killed when Sioux police tried to arrest him in case he led a new rebellion against the US control of his people. His followers fled south to join the band of who?
Big Foot.
On what date did Custer attack the Indian camp at the Little Big Horn?
They were badly defeated, 225 men died and many were stripped, disfigured and scalped!
25th June 1876