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- 5. rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership.
- 7. known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
- 8. An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations
- 10. By setting the stage for non-Indian settlement of other sections of Indian Territory, the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 quickly led to the creation of Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act of 1890 and ultimately to the formation of the forty-sixth state of the Union, Oklahoma, in 1907.
- 13. The Buffalo Soldiers' main duty was to support the nation's westward expansion by protecting settlers, building roads and other infrastructure, and guarding the U.S. mail.
- 14. The largest terrestrial animals in North America, are characterized by a hump over the front shoulders and slimmer hindquarters. Both male and female have a single set of short, sharply pointed, hollow horns that curve outward and up from the sides of the massive head.
- 15. Baxter Springs, in the corner of southeast Kansas. In 1865, after the war was over, a town was laid out on 80 acres by Captain M.
- 17. leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- 18. an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s.
- 19. a participant of the Great Exodus
- 20. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
- 21. involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal.
- 22. Tipis are the conical skin- or canvas-covered dwellings used by the Plains Indians as permanent or seasonal dwellings.
- 24. provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
- 25. a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
- 26. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
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- 1. the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.
- 2. an area of land set aside for occupation by North American Indians or Australian Aboriginal people.
- 3. a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.
- 4. a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law excluded merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats.
- 6. a railroad going across a continent
- 9. a vein of metal ore in the earth.
- 11. a farmer or farm worker who plows the land.
- 12. a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army
- 16. (in Spanish-speaking parts of the US) a cowboy; a cattle driver.
- 21. a pen for livestock, especially cattle or horses, on a farm or ranch.
- 23. come to live permanently in a foreign country.