Across
- 2. a massive deposit of silver ore discovered in 1859 near Virginia City, Nevada, which became the first major silver strike in the United States
- 6. African Americans who migrated from the Southern U.S. to the Great Plains
- 7. a Lakota war leader and spiritual leader known for his bravery and fierce resistance
- 11. was the first continuous railway in North America, linking the eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific Coast
- 14. a U.S. fraternal organization founded in 1867 to improve the economic and social lives of rural families
- 16. members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Down
- 1. a person, a type of agricultural plow or tiller, or a simple, durable pocket knife
- 3. a political group that claims to represent the interests of ordinary people
- 4. the process where a minority group adopts the cultural norms (language, customs, values) of a dominant group
- 5. it's famous for the Apache leader Goyahkla,
- 8. the time of a region or country that is established by law or general usage as civil time
- 9. a historical period of the open-range cattle industry in the American West or the Ohio Valley, characterized by large-scale ranching and long-distance cattle drives
- 10. Northern Paiute author, activist, interpreter, and educator
- 12. the historical practice, especially in the American West (1860s-1890s), of cowboys herding large numbers of cattle over long distances
- 13. lands set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes,
- 15. was a late 19th-century Native American spiritual movement