The West
Across
- 9. U.S. General who later founded the Carlisle industrial school
- 11. Political and spiritual leader and destroyed Armstrong's force in a battle
- 12. Provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
- 14. A school on a mission to "kill the Indian" and "save the Man"
- 16. Slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Indians
- 17. Apache leader and medicine man known for resisting anyone
- 18. A trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
- 19. Indigenous tribe who compromised the great plains but were fierce for riding on a horse
- 20. United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people
Down
- 1. First continuous railroad line across the U.S.
- 2. A Nez Perce leader who led his tribe called the Wallowa band
- 3. He helped Sitting Bull defeat Custer's seventh U.S. battalion
- 4. Great source of food for the native Americans because there were millions but white settlers almost made them extinct
- 5. Ritual dance and a larger spiritual and cultural movement
- 6. A battle where the Sioux and Cheyenne momentarily won against Goerge Custer
- 7. United States, and nine tribes and bands of Indians, occupying the lands lying around the head of Puget Sound, Washington, and the adjacent inlets
- 8. Agresive Union general and destroyed the Shenandoah Valley
- 10. Brought many whites but affected the birthplace of indigenous tribes.
- 13. the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe
- 15. U.S. Commander in wars against Indigenous tribes