Across
- 8. land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, and railroads
- 10. self-appointed law enforcers
- 12. war chief and spiritual figure who became the first-ever chief to lead all of the Lakota Sioux
- 13. rail link between the eastern and the western United States
- 14. ranching when the rancher lets their livestock roam vast areas of grass land
- 15. african americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war
- 16. public lands where native Americans were required to live by the federal government.
Down
- 1. a group of mexican americans living in new mexico who attempted to protect
- 2. 1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated the U.S. Army troops
- 3. 1864 incidentin which colorado militia attacked a camp of cheyenne and arapaho indians, some who were under U.S. army protection
- 4. 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
- 5. a 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
- 6. confrontation between U.S. calvary and Sioux that ended the Indian resistance
- 7. land and way of life from enroachment by white land owners
- 9. succeeded his father as chief of the Nez Perce in 1871
- 11. absorbed into the main culture of a society