Learning Contract #3

3. an area of land tenure governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than by the state in which it is located
4. a leader of the Walamwatkain band of Net Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the US, in the latter half of the 1900's
5. the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it
12. the action or process of adapting or being adapted
13. a battle in montana near the Little Bighorn River between US Cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans
14. a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people
15. a massacre of nearly 300 Lakota people by soldiers of the US Army
17. a train route across the US, finished in 1869. The project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the East, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.

1. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
2. several laws in the US by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead
6. a 2,170 mile east-west, large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the US that connected the Missouri River to the valleys in Oregon
7. a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California
8. a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities
9. a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against the US government policies
10. regulated land rights on tribal territories within the US. It authorized the President of the US to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals
11. the action of inventing something, typically a process or device
16. relating to or characteristics of a town or city