Chapter 17

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GREAT PLAINS

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a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada

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CROWD NOBODY

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What you were thought to be after the civl war.

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"INDIAN COUNTRY"

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An area of land that is inhabited with many indians.

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CHIVINGTON MASSACRE

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Colonel John M. Chivington lead an attack on sleeping indians.

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RED CLOUD

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leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)

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FETTERMAN MASSACRE

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the Fetterman massacre, the slaughter of Captain Fetterman and 79 of his men by Sioux warriors in 1866

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BUFFALO SOLDIERS

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black soldiers

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RED RIVER WAR

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a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.

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SITTING BULL

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Indian name Tatanka Yotanka . ?1831--90, American Indian chief of the Teton Dakota Sioux. Resisting White encroachment on his people's hunting grounds, he led the Sioux tribes against the US Army in the Sioux War (1876--77) in which Custer was killed. The hunger of the Sioux, whose food came from the diminishing buffalo, forced his surrender (1881). He was killed during renewed strife

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CRAZY HORSE

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leader of the Oglala Sioux tribe: defeated General George Custer at battle of Little Bighorn

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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER

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U.S. general and Indian fighter

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7TH CAVALRY

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A calvary unit that went straight from the civil war; to the attacks of the indians.

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NEZ PERCE TRIBE

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leader Chief Joseph

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CHIEF JOSEPH

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Chief of Oregon's Nez Perce Indians who led his people in the 1870s on a desperate attempt to reach Canada rather than submit to forcible settlement on a reservation. Forced to surrender to U.S. troops just south of the border, he reportedly stated: “Hear me my chiefs, I am tired: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more.”

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WOVOKA

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Paiute religious leader: originator of the ghost dance religion.

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GHOST DANCE

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a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, esp. such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.

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OUNDED KNEE MASSACREW

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squelched the idea of the ghost dances with the indians rituals.

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ASSIMILATION

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the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation

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COURT OF INDIAN OFFENSES

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The first begining court cases showing and proving the indians to their crimes.

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DAWES SEVERALTY ACT

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To provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes

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EXTERMINATION OF THE BUFFALO

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With the emergence of the importance of the leather, and the other tools that they can be used for, americans began to slowly wipe out large herds. for a single person up to a hundred at a time. Leaving native americans starving.

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BUFFALO BILL CODY

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U.S. Army scout and showman

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GOLD RUSH OF 1849

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forced many people into indian lands; sparking an even greater threat of a war

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OVERLAND TRAIL

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any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.

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HOMESTEAD ACT OF 1862

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a three-fold homestead acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could file an application and lay claim to 160 acres o

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TIMBER CULTURE ACT OF 1873

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The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres ) of land if they planted trees on one-fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to cultivating

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TIMBER AND STONE ACT OF 1878

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mostly for unit farming selling to those who found the land unfit for farming.

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NATIONAL RECLAMATION ACT

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"HYDRAULIC" SOCIETY

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a society in which social order is based on the intensive manipulation of water and its products in an arid setting

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ROMUALDO PACHECO

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was an American politician and diploma

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LAS GORRAS BLANCAS

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( the white caps ) everyday tactics of resistance to the economic and social order confronting common property land grant communities. The name comes from the white head coverings many wore

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INSTANT CITIES"

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Where places were set up quickly and resided quickly.

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PLACER MINING

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open place

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COMSTOCK LODE

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the most valuable deposit of silver ore ever recorded, discovered in 1859 by Henry T. P. Comstock near Virginia City, Nev.

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CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

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Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was re["e]nacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States.

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FOREIGN MINERS TAX

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tax on chinses people that found gold

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VAQUEROS

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a cowboy or herdsman.

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WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION

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an agency that was developed with mostly cattle in mind

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EXODUSTERS

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African Americans who fled the Southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 188

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DRY FARMING

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farming along a dry patch of land

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NATIONAL GRANGE

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a group founded with the ideas of farming and agrictulture to aide the help of others around them, keeping demand high and prices low.

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BONANZA FARMS

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huge acreages created from the sale of land by the Northern Pacific Railroad to its investors to cover its debts, covered thousands of acres and produced large wheat crops

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TURNERS THESIS

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by pointing to frontier conservations and imitativeness, the influence of varying raceial groups, and the persistance of European ideas and institutions.