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Sand Creek Massacre
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1864 attack in which as many as 200 Cheyenne were killed by the Colorado militia
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn
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George A. Custer
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commander of U.S. troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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1876 battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire force of U.S. troops
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Dawes Act
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1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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mass killing by U.S. soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890
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nomadic
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characterized by moving from place to place
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reservation
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land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Amercian tribes
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