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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues
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John M. Chivington
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A U.S. Army colonel who took about 700 Colorado volunteers who opened fire on an indian camp and killed 200 innocent indians
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Sand Creek Massacre
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(1864) Attack by U.S. Army troops in which some 200 peaceful Cheyenne were killed in Colorado
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Sitting Bull
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An important leader of the Sioux resistance who had a vision which helped the indians fight and kept their moral high
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George Armstrong Custer
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A lieutenant colonel who took 600 soldiers and attacked an indian camp intoxicated and lost every man in his group in the Battle of Little Bighorn
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