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| First major agreement signed with northern Plains nations |
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| Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans |
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| Sioux leader who violently protested reservations |
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| Southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations |
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| Nickname given by Indians to African American cavalry |
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| Army commander who lost to the Sioux at Little Bighorn |
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| Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn |
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| Battle of the Little Bighorn |
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| Last great victory for Sioux, where they defeated Custer |
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| Battle in which U.S. troops killed about 150 Sioux |
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| A 300 mile forced march of Navajo captives to a reservation |
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| Apache leader who continued to fight against the U.S. army until 1886 |
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| Religious movement predicting a paradise for Native Americans |
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| Paiute against the government's treatment of Native Americans |
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| Dawes General Allotment Act |
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| Act that took almost 70% of reservation land |
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| What was the purpose of early treaties between the U.S. government and Native Americans? |
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| They were contracts to sell land. |
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| Why did many Native Americans fight the move to reservations? |
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| They wanted to keep the land they were already on. |
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| Why did the government want the Sioux to sell their reservation? |
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| Settlers discovered gold and silver on their land, so they wanted that land. |
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| Why would the officials worry about the spread of the Ghost Dance beliefs? |
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| They feared th religion would lead to rebellion. |
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| What act tried to lessen the traditional influences of Native American society by making a land ownership private rather than communal and by promising U.S. citizenship to American Indians? |
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| The Davis General Allotment Act |
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| What religious movement spread so rapidly among the American Indian communities of the Plains, that U.S. government officials feared rebellion? |
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| Which leader of Lakota Sioux refused to give in to U.S. government demands that the community sell their reservation in the Black Hills, upon discovery oof gold in the region in 1874? |
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| The 1858 discovery of gold in Colorado led ultimately to the creation of what plots of land, on which American Indian communities were expected to remain? |
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