| A | B |
|---|
| first major treaty between the US government and Plains Indians | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
| areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans | reservations |
| Sioux leader who ambushed and killed 81 cavalry troops | Crazy Horse |
| agreement where most southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations | Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
| troops, including African American cavalry, who forced the Indians to leave for the reservations | buffalo soldiers |
| his soldiers discovered gold in the Black Hills of the Dakotas | George Armstrong Custer |
| leader of the Lakota Sioux who protested US demands for the Dakotas land | Sitting Bull |
| Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops | Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| US Army shot and killed about 150 Sioux; last major incident on the Great Plains | Massacre at Wounded Knee |
| 300 mile march the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in New Mexico; countless died | Long Walk |
| Chiricahua Apache who avoided capture for many years; finally surrendered ending Apache armed resistence | Geronimo |
| religious movement that predicted the arrival of paradise for Native Americans | Ghost Dance |
| Paiute Indian who called for reform of the reservation system | Sarah Winnemucca |
| tried to lessen traditional influences on Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared | Dawes General Allotment Act |
