The Indian Wars to Little Big Horn

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  1. 2. Tribe that took their grievances to the Supreme Court.
  2. 3. Leader of the Cheyenne (pg. 76)
  3. 12. Group of Indians that included Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole
  4. 16. Term for land given to Indian tribes
  5. 17. Indian leader that fought the U.S. troops along with the runaway slaves (Florida)
  6. 19. Tribe that battle U.S. troops in Florida.
  7. 20. Christopher Columbus was the first to incorrectly call Native Americans this.
  8. 21. Term used for raiding Cheyenne
  9. 23. Tribe that created so many problems for the American colonists that Washington ordered his general to destroy them in 1779.
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  1. 1. Shawnee chief that said, "Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds the great sea?"
  2. 4. War that humiliated George Washington (3 words)
  3. 5. The 5 Civilized Tribes were punished for supporting this during the Civil War
  4. 6. This president believed that moving the Indians would prevent more wars betweeb them and the United States.
  5. 7. means taken under U.S. control
  6. 8. President that proposed The Indian Removal Act.
  7. 9. Lakota war leader that refused to move
  8. 10. 1000 mile journey that relocated tribes to Oklahoma Territory.
  9. 11. U.S. leader at Little Big Horn.
  10. 13. This event kept soldiers from being able to respond to pleas for help (pg. 76)
  11. 14. Type of weapon used at the Sand Creek Massacre
  12. 15. Thomas Jefferson used this term to refer to Indians
  13. 18. Major warfare invention
  14. 22. 1858 discovery in the Rocky Mountains that increased tensions between Indians