Vocab #3

5. continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast
8. leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century.
9. the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture.
10. Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
14. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
15. rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852.
16. an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

1. and reserved for and managed by a Native American tribe, its sovereignty limited by federal and state or local law
2. a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people.
3. the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it.
4. passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
6. 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States
7. a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
11. the action of inventing something, typically a process or device.
12. in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
13. densely population areas or cities