The Plains Wars Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. War fought between the Sioux and the US army 1865-68 (3,6,3)
  2. 7. The tribe whose scouts helped Custer (4)
  3. 10. How Indians perceived the Black Hills (6)
  4. 11. Saw Indians as savages and should be cleared from plains (13)
  5. 13. Signed in 1851. Defined areas Indians could hunt (4,7,6)
  6. 15. Built by the US army to protect travellers and control reservations (5)
  7. 16. Sioux leader (7,4)
  8. 17. US Army unit led by Custer (7,7)
  9. 20. Declared closed in 1890 (9,6,8)
  10. 21. Discovered in the Black Hills in 1874 (4)
  11. 22. Wanted to maintain the Indian way of life (11)
  12. 23. Piece of land for Indians only (11)
  13. 25. Site of the Sioux victory over the US army (6,3,4)
Down
  1. 1. Killed more US soldiers on the Plains that Indians managed to (7)
  2. 2. Almost extinct by 1890 (7)
  3. 3. Trail that went through Red Cloud's hunting grounds (7)
  4. 5. Signed in 1868. Created the Great Sioux Reservation (6,4,7,6)
  5. 6. Tribe that was massacred at Sand Creek (8)
  6. 8. Sheridan's strategy of attacking Indian food, shelter and horses (5,3)
  7. 9. Site of a massacre carried out by US troops led by Custer in 1865 (4,5)
  8. 12. Custer's middle name (9)
  9. 14. Discovered gold in the Black Hills in 1874 (6)
  10. 17. The amount, in dollars, that the US government offered to buy the Black Hills (3,7)
  11. 18. A problem in the US army on the Plains because of poor conditions (9)
  12. 19. Place where gold was found in 1862
  13. 24. The season when the US army attacked the Indians with most success (6)