Across
- 2. The name of an Oglala war chief
- 4. An Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana
- 9. A person who felt that the reservation system was holding back Indians
- 12. A dominant tribal force in the Northwest Plains
- 13. One of the first acts that majorly reduced the size of Indian homelands
- 16. The first prime minister of Canada
- 19. The act that put and end to the “treaty period”
- 21. An amendment to the Dawes Act that stripped triable power in the 1880’s
- 22. A group that was involved in direct action, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, with a main focus on treaty and fishing rights
- 24. He said, the “real aim of this bill is to get Indian lands and open them up to settlement”
- 25. This was a law that put an end to the erosion of Indian homelands through allotment
Down
- 1. This act created the INdian Claims Commission in 1946
- 3. This tribe was allotted 657 acres of land per household in 1907
- 5. The Hopi Name for ancestors
- 6. The governor of Minnesota who forced Indians to hand over ~11 million acres of prime woodlands to the government
- 7. A period of time when over 1.3 million acres of Indian land was removed from trust status
- 8. An Indian man in the book whose life follows a seasonal cycle for making money
- 10. The group of officials who were tasked with making agreements with Indian tribes
- 11. This was the first comprehensive assessment of Indian living conditions in the US since 1850
- 14. The organization created in 1885 to try and stop provisions of the IRA
- 15. Where the original 5 tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy lived
- 17. Indian tribe who lives in the Great Lakes region
- 18. ______ owe their existence to a $145 tax bill on a trailer in a remote northern village on the Leech Lake Reservation
- 20. A group of tribes who lived along the Atlantic Coast
- 23. This Chief’s name translates to hole in the day in english
