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| Reservation (Agency) | Federal land set aside for Native-Americans |
| Battle of Little Big Horn | Sioux victory in 1876 over army troops under George Custer |
| Massacre at Sand Creek | 1864 massacre of some 450 Cheyenne men, women and children by U.S. troops under Colonel Chivington |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | 1890 shooting by army troops of a group of unarmed Sioux |
| Dawes Allotment Act | 1887 law that divided Native American land into private family plots |
| Navajo | American Indians located in the southwestern region of the U.S. |
| Apache | American Indians located in the southwestern region of the U.S. |
| Cheyenne | Indians located in the western region of the U.S. |
| Sioux | Indians located in the western region of the U.S. |
| Black Hills | Sacred homeland of the Lakota Sioux located in present-day South Dakota |
| Nez Perce | Indians located in the northwestern region of the U.S. |
| Indian Territory | Federal land set aside for relocated Indians in present-day Oklahoma |
| Wallowa Valley | Ancestral homeland of the Nez Perce located in present-day Washington, Oregon, and Idaho |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie 1851 | Treaty signed by Sioux nations recognizing their territory as most of present-day North and South Dakota and parts of Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 | Treaty signed by Sioux chiefs presumedly for the removal of U.S. forts and bringing an end to recent fighting |
| Lapwai | Reservation set aside for the Nez Perce before their 1877 odyssey |
| "On the Warpath" | Phrase used when describing Indian hostilities against U.S. troops or settlers |
| Council | Meeting of Indian tribal band chiefs to discuss important matters impacting the tribe as a whole |
| Great White Chief at Washington | Indian word for the President of the United States |
| Great Spirit Chief | Indian term equivalent to "God" |
| Spirit Land | Indian term equivalent to "Heaven" |
| Scalping | Practice of cutting off a piece of one's scalp as a spoil of war, originating with European settlers to the "New Land," and spreading to western Indian nations |
| King George's Land | Indian term for Canada |
| War Chief | Indian term for a high ranking U.S. soldier (i.e. Colonel or General) |
| Colville | Reservation set aside for the Nez Perce after their 1877 odyssey |
| Carlisle | Famous Indian boarding school located in Pennsylvania and set up by Richard Henry Pratt |
| Boarding Schools | Off-reservation schools instructing Indians on how to lose their Indian ways and intergrate into white society |
| Haskell | Famous Indian boarding school located in Kansas |
| Pine Ridge | One of the six smaller reservations set aside for the Sioux after the Black Hills Cession of 1877 |
| Ghost Dance | Religion that promised a return of old Indian ways, the disappearance of whites, and the return of the buffalo |
| Blanket Indian | Indian term used to decribe a person who adhered to the "old ways" |
| Long Knives | Indian term for white men, originally in reference to soldiers with swords |
