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| brave | Title of a male Indian who had proven himself as a warrior. |
| squaw | an Indian female/wife |
| scalping | The removal of the skin covering the top of a person head during or after a battle by tribes such as the Huron and Shawnee |
| reservations | land set aside by the whites for the sole use of the Indians. |
| chief | A man who led the band for a number of reasons such as he was wise or a skilled hunter. |
| clan | Indian family grouping |
| tipi | a plains Indian tent house made from buffalo hide |
| Black Hills | The best Sioux hunting grounds, but gold was discovered in them. |
| Counting Coup | an Indian act of bravery in battle by touching an enemy, usually with a special stick. |
| band | A tribe is made up of these smaller living and hunting groups. |
| exposure | Leaving the old, who were no longer able to travel on their own, to die on the Plains. |
| travois | a type of sled or trailer or carrying frame made up of two poles with buffalo hide stretched between each pole.used by plains Indians to transport their belongs as they followed the buffalo herds. |
| Sun dance | ritual carried out by “braves” to show their courage. |
| Sitting Bull | Chief of the Sioux and medicine takes his people to Canada but returns to reservation |
| Waken Tanka | the great Indian spirit of the Plains Indians |
| Crazy Horse | Chief of the Sioux |
| First settlers | Native Americans |
| Ghost Dance | a belief that their dead and the buffalo would return |
| Shaman | witch doctor or medical man who Indians believed had great powers. |
| Sioux | A nation of Plains Indians. |
