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| Trail of Tears | forced migration of the Native Americans from their homes to government set up reservations |
| General Custer | American General who lost a major battle to the Native Americans because he underestimated the power of thier determination to remain on their own land, practicing their own traditions |
| Chief Sitting Bull | Chief leader of the Sioux in clashes with the United States Army in the Black Hills |
| Wounded Knee | confrontation in 1973 in South Dakota on the site where a massacre had taken place in 1890, the leaders of the Pine Ridge reservation wanted to draw attention to the poverty on the reservation, the FBI surrounded the reservation and only occassionally alowed supply shipments in |
| Squatters | white settlers who occupied government land in order to gain the title to the land |
| Chief Joseph | Leader of the Nez Perce; forced to give up his homeland by the US government, fled towards Canada and was 40 miles from the border when he was captured |
| Boomers | a person wanting to settle in the West in the late 1880's, especially one of those who pressured Congress in 1889 to take over Native American land for settling purposes |
| Sooners | a person who settled land in the newly opened Indian Territory before it was officially made available in 1889 |
| Dawes Act | Government action that forced Native Americans to assimilate into American culture and allowed them to become citizens |
