vocab #3

2. Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War
5. Grave citizens/future citizens up to 160 acres of public land
6. An area located outside towns and cities.
11. Any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U.S Pacific Coast with one or more of the railroads of the nations eastern trunk line
15. The discovery of significant gold deposits in California in 1848
16. The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
17. A hunkpapa Lakota leader

1. The climax of the U.S. army's late 19th century efforts to repress the Plain Indians
3. Created to keep native americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle
4. A 2,170 mile, east west, large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the U.S.
7. A human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of of built government
8. A prominent leader/medicine man of the Bedonkone band of the Apache people
9. A product of the imagination especially
10. Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the U.S.
12. A modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence
13. Leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain tribe of Nez Perce
14. Turf/a section torn from grassland