Sioux
Did the Sioux win the Plains War
No
The Sioux were a what type of culture?
horse culture
These people are organized in the a complex system of tribes and clans.
The Sioux
This area is sacred to the Sioux?
The Black Hills
Allotted 160 acres to every head of family and 80 acres to individuals. It opened the "surplus land" to settlement
The Dawes Act
Who, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, George Armstrong Custer, or Red Cloud was not a Native American leader?
George Armstrong Custer
Known as the "Boy General" he was a famous Civil War Cavalryman who fought natives on the plains.
George Armstrong Custer
The attack on a Cheyenne camp on the Sand Creek was known as?
Sand Creek Massacre
This animal changed the way of life for many tribes on the plains
The Horse
This government agency was in charge of taking care of Native Americans but often did not do a good job.
The Indian Bureau
Under the Reservation System, the U.S. government expected Plains Indians to do what?
Stay on the land assigned to them year round in return for food and supplies.
Custer may have not been at fault for the loss of the Battle of Little Big Horn according to?
Some historians
Soldiers did what to the bodies of the native Americans they killed.
Mistreated
Which of the following Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Cherokee is NOT a plains tribe?
Cherokee
This treaty allowed safe passage for settler and left Native land alone.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
He was a famous Sioux warrior who may have never been photographed but was a "Shirt Wearer" and was killed at Fort Robinson in Nebraska
Crazy Horse
May have been a part of the start of the plains war according to some historians.
A lame Cow
This massacre occurred in 1890 when the last band of nomadic Sioux tried to get to Red Cloud's reservation but were attacked by the 7th Calvary.
The Battle of Wounded Knee
What is NOT a reason that Buffalo numbers were reduced?
People did not like the taste and stopped eating them.
Why is the Homestead Act not good for the plains tribes?
It opened their native land to settlers
He was a leader of the Sioux who helped organize the warriors for the Battle of Little Big Horn, worked in the Wild West show and was killed in 1890.
Sitting Bull
Increased movement of settlers and miners lead to?
Increased contact with Native Americans.
In this famous battle the 7th Calvary was defeated by a larger number of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors
The Battle of Little Bighorn
This dance was supposed to bring back the dead buffalo and ancestors of the Native Americans. Many Sioux practiced it but not all Sioux believed it would work.
The Ghost Dance
This school destroyed the culture of the Sioux children who attended
Carlisle School