American West

4. A tract of public land set apart for a special purpose, such as for the use of a native tribe
6. A ritual dance indented to initiate contact with the dead
9. The route which the U.S. government forced several tribes of Native Americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River
11. A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers & landowners by providing cooperating familied with 160 acres of reservation land for farming
12. A U.S. detective born in Scotland
14. A cattle trail leading in from San Antonio, TX to Abilene, KA
15. A train of wagons and horses

1. The belief that it was the U.S.'s destiny to expand its territory over the whole of North America
2. The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation
3. A special act of congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers w/o payment to be used as farms
5. A former system in the America West of carrying mail and express by relays or riders mounted by ponies
7. a black soldier (especially among Natives)
8. A tract of 45k sq. miles now contained in New Mexico & Arizona, purchased for 10 million from Mexico in 1853
10. A cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried
13. A man who heads and tends cattle on a ranch