The west
Across
- 2. hunkpapa Lakota Leader who led his people during years or resistance against u.s government
- 7. several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land
- 12. a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century.
- 16. A leader of the wal lam kain band of nez perce
- 17. a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network
- 18. Animals important to natives, used for food, clothing and more
- 19. a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
- 20. an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people
Down
- 1. the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 through 1918
- 3. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars
- 4. Rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874
- 5. A ceremony incorporated in numerous native american belief system
- 6. an American military officer who founded and was longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- 8. treaty between the United States, and nine tribes and bands of Indians, occupying the lands lying around the head of Puget Sound, Washington
- 9. Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
- 10. a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people
- 11. A battle between Lakota sioux, northern cheyenne, arapaho tribes against the 7th calvary regiment of the united states army.
- 13. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
- 14. the deadliest mass shooting in American history, involving nearly three hundred Lakota people shot and killed by soldiers
- 15. North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains