clash on prairie

3. the creator of this puzzle
4. flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, located in the interior of North America
9. act to americanize the native americans
10. a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
13. sioux agreed to live a long a reservation along missosourie
14. major cattle route from san antonio texas through oklahoma to kansas
15. of the buffallo was sacred and used in rituals
16. was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars

1. ran directly through sioux hunting grounds in the bighorns mountains
2. rifle used by goverment troops and a sioux war blow
5. after civil war demand sky rocketed
6. were carved into bowls and spoons
7. brought the indian wars and an entire era-to a bitter end
8. process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group
11. was the most prescios part of the buffalo clothing and teepees were made from it
12. an animal of a breed of cattle with long horns