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- 8. Northern Palute who taught the ceremonial Ghost Dance.
- 10. The act offered plots of land in the region to American citizens, where each person was eligible for up to 160 acres for free as long as they lived on the land & and successfully cultivated it for 5 years.
- 11. Mexican cattle drivers.
- 13. Was the leader of the Nez Perce in the mid-1800s.
- 15. Famous Apache chief who was captured in 1886 and unfortunately died at the age of 80 in Fort Sill, OK instead of his childhood home in Arizona.
- 16. Col. ____ ___, along with his solders, died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 19. The deliberate killing of a large group of people and their culture.
- 27. Ceremony believed to call upon a rescuer who would destroy the White men and restore the world to Native Americans.
- 28. Spanning 8 states, it's one of the world's largest aquifers.
- 29. The belief that ordinary people should control government rather than elite politicians.
- 30. Required the US government to print only the amount of money equal to the total value of its gold reserves.
- 32. Mining technique where pressure water is shot into the mountainside to remove topsoil and gravel to expose the precious minerals beneath.
- 33. Name given to settlers due to their exit from the South after Reconstruction failed to end racial oppression.
- 34. _____ _____ Massacre was led by Col. John Chriving and his soldiers, slaughtered ~150 unarmed Cheyenne women, children, and elderly men.
- 35. Is one of our most rare and precious resources that we can’t survive without.
- 36. Is more famously known for his pen name than his real name Samuel Clemens.
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- 1. Also known as the People’s Party.
- 2. The belief that Americans were intended to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
- 3. Farming techniques to make the most use of what little rain did fall on the land.
- 4. Dramatic Mexican ballads, telling stories of heroes defiant of US authorities.
- 5. Divided reservations into 160-acre allotments for farming; promising Native Americans who farmed the land for 25 years could receive US citizenship.
- 6. He dubbed the Great Plains, “The Great American Desert.”
- 7. Known for her famous work, “The Land of Little Rain.”
- 9. Geological formations that have the right conditions below the surface to hold large groundwater reservoirs.
- 12. The larger-than-life protagonist of a series of novels penned by E.Z.C. Judson.
- 14. Massacre at ____ ____ killed around ~300 Lakota Natives due to their practice of the Ghost Dance.
- 17. “Red Bird” is known for her writings of personal experiences trying to live between two cultures (Lakota and a Quaker missionary).
- 18. The ____ ____ _____ was released in 1903 and was the first western film.
- 20. Treaty of ___ ___ guaranteed that Native Americans in the territory an annual cash payment if they stayed within certain boundaries, stopped attacks on settlers, and allowed forts to be built.
- 21. Popular fiction that sold for 10 cents in the 1800s.
- 22. Most known for his writing of “Indian Boyhood.”
- 23. An area of land designated for and managed by a particular Native American tribe.
- 24. Led the Cheyenne, Lakota, and other Native tribes to victory in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 25. An Illinois blacksmith who invented a plow tough enough to break through the prairie's dense soil.
- 26. A beetle that ears the buds and flowers of the cotton plant.
- 31. Considered America’s first female superstar and worked alongside Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill in Wild West shows.