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- 3. historically one of six Cheyenne military societies.
- 5. a landmark law in the United States signed into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots
- 6. a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies
- 8. an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
- 13. authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian Lands.
- 14. also known more recently as American Indian Residential Schools.
- 23. one of the most important leaders of the Oglala Lakota from 1868 to 1909.
- 27. part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal.
- 32. a time of killing buffalo and expansion.
- 34. a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States
- 35. a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce.
- 36. three related military conflicts in Florida between the United States and the Seminole
- 38. also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located virtually entirely in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
- 39. spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians
- 40. a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people.
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- 1. a mass hanging at Mankato on December 26, when 38 Sioux were executed.
- 2. also known as Indian Affairs, is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.
- 4. a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
- 7. leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache
- 9. a non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States.
- 10. a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment
- 11. a United States Congressional act passed on February 28, 1877, it officially removed ownership of the Black Hills from the Lakota.
- 12. a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication.
- 15. his middle name is named after a shawnee Chief
- 16. created the Indian reservation system and provided funds to move Indian tribes onto farming reservations and hopefully keep them under control.
- 17. allowed the president to break up reservation land.
- 18. a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars.
- 19. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War
- 20. also known as Second Wounded Knee, began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee.
- 21. also known as the Forced Fee Patenting Act, amended the Dawes Act of 1887,
- 22. casino located in Connecticut.
- 24. a type education taught by elders.
- 25. treaty made to delineate tribal land holdings for the U.S. government
- 26. law providing for the distribution of Indian lands among Native Americans.
- 28. a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
- 29. an aggressive Union general during the American Civil War
- 30. he served as the last Commanding General of the United States Army before the office was abolished.
- 31. a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America
- 33. the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand.
- 37. abbreviation for a Native American grassroots movement founded in July 1968.