Standard 12 vocab
Across
- 2. It helped transform the American West by allowing farmers and ranchers to easily fence off their land.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6. A series of treaties signed with Native American tribes in the 1850's at Fort Laramie.
- 9. Native American tribe who historically inhabited the Great Plains region of North America
- 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. Major event driven by European settlers and the expansion of the railroad. The Plains Native American heavily relied on the buffalo.
- 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.
- 7. A US officer who fought in the American Civil War and in wars against Native Americans.
- 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.