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| Adapted to changing conditions by learning, faught each other to gain control of plains, created constitutional republic and became farmers |
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| 1867- assigned reservations in existing Indian territory to comanches, Plains Appaches, Kiowas, Cheyenenes, and Arrapohoes. Indians competed for survival. |
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| largest and most adaptive indians on plains, followed heards of buffalo on horseback, dependent on buffalo, tired to save it from whites. |
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| Chief Black Kettle and his Cheyennes came to sand creek for protection. 105 women and children killed 28 men, sparked indian retalliation |
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| Great Sioux War of 1865-67 |
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| miners invading Sioux land, Sioux faught US government to stalemate, ended with creation of the Great Sioux Reservation |
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| Defeated, after U.S. army forced indians to surrender one by one in 1877, US took over Black hills and wars ended. |
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| Tribe that assisted US, 1860 gold discovered in their territory, US want 90% of land, Nez put in oklahoma . |
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