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| Great Plains | The vast grassland that extends through the west-central portion of the United States. |
| Homestead Act | A law, enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone who would live on and cultivate it for five years. |
| Exoduster | An African American who migrated from the South to the Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years. |
| Sand Creek Massacre | An attack by U.S soldiers on a Cheyenne encampment in the Colorado Territory in 1864, in which 200 Native American men, women, and children were killed. |
| Sitting Bull | A medicine man and leader ofthe Hunkpapa Sioux. |
| George A. Custer | A Civil War hero and colonel in the Seventh Cavalry. |
| Assimilation | A minority group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture. |
| Dawes Act | A law innacted in 1887, that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners. |
| Ghost Dance | A Native American ritual intended to bring about the restoration of tribal life, popular among the sioux prior to the Battle ofthe Wounded Knee. |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | The massacre by U.S soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, in 1890. |
