Across
- 3. an animal of a breed of cattle with long horns.
- 4. the broad expanse of flat land
- 6. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near
- 8. A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
- 9. occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
Down
- 1. Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century. He was a chief and medicine man when the Sioux took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United
- 2. was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people,
- 5. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars
- 7. the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted
- 10. the close of the Civil War, large herds of longhorn cattle roamed freely throughout Texas. High meat prices in eastern cities attracted a variety of entrepreneurs and prompted cattlemen to search for