A | B |
Nomad | Someone who moves from place to place |
Buffalo | Primary food source for Plains Indians |
George Custer | Leader of US 7th Calvary |
Reservation | Lands Natives were forced onto |
Crazy Horse | Famous warleader of Sioux |
Sitting Bull | Fought with Crazy Horse against white encroachment |
Battle of Little Big Horn | Slaught of 7th. Calvary by Sioux |
Chief Joseph | Tried to lead the Nez Perce to Canada |
"I will fight no more, forever." | Famous quote by Chief Joseph |
"Century of Dishonor" | Book by Helen Hunt Jackson |
Dawes Act | Idea to break reservation in to 160 acre allotments |
Assimilation | Idea to turn Native children into "whites" |
Gov't main plan to get rid of Natives | Destroy food source, buffalo |
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody | Famous buffalo hunter hired by railroads |
Ghost Dance | Natives plea to ancestors for help |
Wounded Knee happened because | US Army feared the Ghost Dance |
Dakota Sioux uprising occured because | Natives feared the lost of the buffalo |