Chapter 20 Vocab

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Commissioners:

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Representatives of a government.

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Treaty of the Little Arkansas:

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Treaty signed in October 1865 by federal commissioners and southern Plains Indian leaders in which Comanche and Kiowa leaders agreed to settle on a reservation in the Panhandle.

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Satanta

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Kiowa chief who bitterly opposed the reservation policy.

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Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek:

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Treaty signed in 1867 in Kansas between federal commissioners and Plains Indians in which some American Indians agreed to move to reservations in Indian Territory.

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Quakers

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Members of a Protestant sect called the Society of Friends.

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Lawrie Tatum:

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Quaker who was the Indian agent for the Comanche and Kiowa at the reservation in Indian Territory.

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buffalo guns:

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Powerful rifles with telescopes used by hunters to kill buffalo.

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Salt Creek Raid:

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Attack in 1871 by some 100 Kiowa and Comanche on a wagon train near Salt Creek.

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Mackenzie Raiders:

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Troops led by Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie that conducted a series of raids on Plains Indians.

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Quanah Parker:

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One of the most important Comanche leaders who was the son of Cynthia Parker.

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Cynthia Parker:

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Anglo settler who was capture as a child by the Comanche and was raised by the Comanches.

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Battle of Adobe Walls:

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Battle in June 1874 in which some 700 American Indians attacked a buffalo hunter’s camp near Adobe Walls.

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Battle of Palo Duro Canyon:

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Battle in September 1874 in which Mackenzie’s Raiders attacked American Indian villages in Palo Duro Canyon and forced the Comanche to flee, marking a turning point in the Red River War.

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Victorio:

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Apache chief led his tribe to the Texas-Mexico border after refusing to go to the reservation. He led raids on both sides of the border.

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buffalo soldiers:

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Named that American Indians gave to African American troops.

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Henry Flipper:

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He was a famous buffalo soldier and was the first black graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.