Learning Contract #3

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Across
  1. 4. In, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.
  2. 7. It is an area of land tenure governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than by the government of the state in which it is located.
  3. 9. The action or process of adapting or being adapted.
  4. 11. He was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people.
  5. 12. It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals.
  6. 13. It was, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
  7. 14. It was a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
  8. 15. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
  9. 16. It was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
  10. 17. They were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
Down
  1. 1. It is a contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
  2. 2. In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
  3. 3. The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.
  4. 5. He was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
  5. 6. The surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it.
  6. 8. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
  7. 10. He was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century.