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14 Cards in this Set
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Treaty of Fort Laramie |
Treaty requiring Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River |
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Reservation system |
Land managed by Native American tribes and their tribal councils. |
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Plains Indians |
Hunter, gathers, planted crops, lived on Great Plains, spiritual, communal |
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Homesteads |
Property and its adjoining land |
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Buffalo |
Shelter, food, clothing and more. Essential to native Americans and were depleted by settlers rapidly. |
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Buffalo soldiers |
African American soldiers, after the civil war that fought in the Indians wars |
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Little big horn |
Custer's last stand where native Americans, led by sitting bull, defeated whites |
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Wounded knee |
Massacre of over 200 Native Americans by the U.S. |
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Ghost dance |
A religious ritual dance that connected Native Americans to their spirits |
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Assimilation |
A minority's groups adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominate culture |
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Exodusters |
African Americans who migrated from the south to Kansas during post reconstruction. |
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Dawes Act |
A law in 1887 that attempted to Americanize Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners. This took away their communal way of living. |
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Morril Act |
The act of 1862 and 1890 helped creat agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states. |
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Indian wars |
A series of conflict between settlers and native Americans as we moved west |
