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  1. 2. hunkpapa Lakota Leader who led his people during years or resistance against u.s government
  2. 7. several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land
  3. 12. a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century.
  4. 16. A leader of the wal lam kain band of nez perce
  5. 17. a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network
  6. 18. Animals important to natives, used for food, clothing and more
  7. 19. a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
  8. 20. an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people
Down
  1. 1. the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 through 1918
  2. 3. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars
  3. 4. Rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874
  4. 5. A ceremony incorporated in numerous native american belief system
  5. 6. an American military officer who founded and was longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School
  6. 8. treaty between the United States, and nine tribes and bands of Indians, occupying the lands lying around the head of Puget Sound, Washington
  7. 9. Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
  8. 10. a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people
  9. 11. A battle between Lakota sioux, northern cheyenne, arapaho tribes against the 7th calvary regiment of the united states army.
  10. 13. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads
  11. 14. the deadliest mass shooting in American history, involving nearly three hundred Lakota people shot and killed by soldiers
  12. 15. North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains