| A | B |
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| Nomad | A person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food |
| Annuity | Money paid by contract at regular intervals |
| Assimilate | To absorb a group into the culture of another population |
| Allotment | A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for cultivation |
| Native Americans lived on the Great Plains as: | Farmers, Hunters, Nomads |
| The main food source of the Native American was? | Buffalo |
| Settlers did these things to the Native Americans during Westward expansion | destroyed hunting grounds, broke treaties and forced N.A. to relocate |
| Settlers in Minnesota territory created a conflict with this tribe: | Dakota Sioux Tribe |
| Dakota Sioux/Minnesota peace treaty | Sioux would live on reservations and receive annuities (food, clothing, supplies) |
| Results of Dakota/Minnesota treaty | annuities were never received, tribe members were starving, Sioux protested |
| Chiefs of the Lakota | Red Cloud, Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull |
| 100 Lakota Sioux warriors were led by this chief to ambush soldiers | Crazy Horse |
| A fort that was built along this trail led settlers to Montana's gold mines | Bozeman Trail |
| By 1860 the gold rush had spread to this territory | Colorado |
| The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were pushed off their lands. This resulted in: | Indian tribes raided wagon trains, burned homes, killed settlers |
| 1877: Nez Perce tribe leave their lands and travel over | 1,300 miles |
| What is the Ghost Dance? | Celebrated a hope for a day of reckoning; settlers would disappear, buffalo would return & Native Americans would reunite with anscestors |
| 1890: Lakota Sioux Reservation: the tribe is banned from performing | The Ghost Dance |
| Which of the Lakota Chiefs was blamed for the Ghost Dance? | Chief Sitting Bull |
| Battle at Wounded Knee Creek happened in this territory? | South Dakota |
| What happened at Wounded Knee? | Ghost Dancers who fled were confronted, 25 soldiers killed and 200 Lakota men, women and children killed |
| 1867: Indian Peace Commission did this? | Created 2 large reservations: 1 for the Sioux and 1 for Native Americans of Southern Plains |
| Tribes who did not comply with Indians Peace Commission were? | violently forced onto reservations |
| What disgusted the Native Americans and the treatment of their food source? | Professional hunters kill 100s of buffalo for hides not food and buffalo are killed by RR for being on tracks |
| By 1889 what animal is on the verge of extinction? | Buffalo |
| This Act divided reservation lands into farming and ranching allotments and was called | The Dawes Act |
| How many acres would a household be given from the dawes Act? | 160 acres |
| How many years did Native Americans have to live on this land to granted citizenship? | 25 years |
| 1924: Citizenship Act did this? | All Native Americans became U.S. Citizens |
| 1934: Indian Reservation Act did this? | Reversed the Dawes Act, restored some reservation lands, Native Americans controlled these lands and elected their own government. |
