Across
- 2. Raided settlers' farms for livestock
- 5. Belief that it was Americans' God-given duty to colonize the American West all the way to the Pacific Ocean
- 8. Offered 160-acre plot of anyone who resided on land for 5 years
- 11. Leader of Nez Perces, who attempted to flee U.S. attempts to place them on a reservation
- 13. Led Lakota to victory in the Battle of Little Bighorn
- 14. Believed they were like the Jews fleeing slavery in Egypt
- 16. Last name of the presidential candidate who was known as "Defender of Farmers"
- 17. Treaty signed in 1851 after U.S. officials gathered Plains nations together
- 18. McKinley believed that the free coinage of what would financially ruin America
- 19. 1887 law giving Native American males 160 acres to farm and set-up schools to make children more "American"
- 20. Apache leader captured in 1886 and sent to a reservation in Oklahoma
Down
- 1. Waited for the Oklahoma Land rush signal
- 3. Played a key role in the survival of Native Americans
- 4. Lakota holy man and tribal chief
- 6. Surface layer of earth in which the rods of grasses tangle with soil
- 7. Snuck onto land in Oklahoma in order to claim the best land
- 9. Schooner A converted farm wagon
- 10. Invented a sod-busting plow made of steal
- 12. Land set aside for Native Americans to live on
- 15. The Sooner State