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3. an animal of a breed of cattle with long horns.
4. the broad expanse of flat land
6. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near
8. A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
9. occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

1. Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century. He was a chief and medicine man when the Sioux took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United
2. was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people,
5. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars
7. the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted
10. the close of the Civil War, large herds of longhorn cattle roamed freely throughout Texas. High meat prices in eastern cities attracted a variety of entrepreneurs and prompted cattlemen to search for