Vocab #3

4. Belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
7. An area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
9. A change in structure, function, or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chance of survival in a specific environment.
11. A prominent leader from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people.
12. Passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
13. Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
14. A 2,000-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
15. A gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
16. A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
17. Several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.

1. A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869.
2. In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
3. Something such as a device or process that has been created or made up.
5. A Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
6. A common style of dwelling built in the Prairies during the second half of the 19th century.
8. The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation.
10. A leader of the Wallamwatkain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.