Plains Indians - Native Americans who lived in the Great Plains, reservation - an area of land set aside for Native Americans, Battle of Little Bighorn - Gold was found in the Black Hills of SD; The biggest victory Native Americans ever won over United States; known as "Custer's Last Stand", Battle of Wounded Knee - A massacre where 300 Indians were killed. This marked the end of the Indian Wars in the United States, Chief Sitting Bull - Leader of the Lakota Sioux. Fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn, Geronimo - Leader of the Apache Plains Indians, Bureau of Indian Affairs - A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans. This agency was corrupt and mistreated the Native Americans, Dawes Severalty Act - Bill (or law) that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, ineffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes, The Carlisle School - School for Native Americans in Pennsylvania that sought to assimilate them into American culture., buffalo - main source of food and supplies for Plains Indians, teepee - mobile form of housing for Plains Indians, Indian Removal Act of 1830 - Took the Native Americans' land, forcing Native Americans to move to unsettled prairie land that was not as valuable., Trail of Tears - The forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians from their lands to present day Oklahoma; forced to walk over 1,000 miles; around 4,000 Indians died, Assimilation - Process of blending one culture into another, George Armstrong Custer - Led the white settlers (American forces) at the Battle of Little Bighorn where he and all his 200 men died, barbed wire - white settlers used to this to put around their land; made it impossible for Native Americans to hunt and gather,

Westward Expansion: Native Americans

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