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Across
  1. 2. It helped transform the American West by allowing farmers and ranchers to easily fence off their land.
  2. 3. A federal Law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming.
  3. 5. A late 19th century Native American spiritual movement and cultural movement that involved a ritual dance and a belief in return of the dead.
  4. 6. A series of treaties signed with Native American tribes in the 1850's at Fort Laramie.
  5. 9. Native American tribe who historically inhabited the Great Plains region of North America
  6. 10. A pivotal conflict in American history where a combined force of Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes decisively defeated the US army
Down
  1. 1. Major event driven by European settlers and the expansion of the railroad. The Plains Native American heavily relied on the buffalo.
  2. 4. It was a tragic event where the US Army killed a large number of Lakota Sioux it marked the end of the Indian Wars.
  3. 7. A US officer who fought in the American Civil War and in wars against Native Americans.
  4. 8. He was a famous Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader and warrior, best known for the battle of Bighorn where he and his warriors were defeated.