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| Great Plains | The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States. |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River in return for the closing of the Bozeman Trail. |
| Sitting Bull | Also known as Tatanka Iyotanka, the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. |
| George A. Custer | A colonel who reported that the Black Hills had gold, "from the grass roots down." |
| assimilation | A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture. |
| Dawes Act | It broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans. The remaining land was sold to white settlers. |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | The slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Amerians. It marked the end to the Indian Wars. |
| longhorn | A type of cattle that was sturdy, short-tempered and accustomed to dry grasslands. |
| Chisholm Trail | The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas. |
| long drive | The three month overland transport of cattle by cowboys. |
