Native Americans Struggles Chapter 19, lesson 3

Plains Indians depended on

• buffalo

• tepees

• guns

• ghost dance

In the Fort Laramie Treaty the federal government promised to

• provide land for Native Americans to hunt buffalo

• protect Native American lands "as long as the grass shall grow"

• leave Native American peoples in peace

• share land with the Plains Indians

The Indian Wars began with the

• the battle of Little Big Horn

• US-Dakota War of 1862

• massacre at Sand Creek

• slaughtering of buffalo

Buffalo soldiers were

• Native Americans who hunted the buffalo

• skilled soldiers trained to kill the buffalo

• soldiers who wore buffalo robes

• African American veterans of the Civil War who fought on the Plains

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on is a

• reservation

• tepee

• travois

• settlement

Who led attacks to keep whites out of the Black Hills?

• Chief Joesph

• Little Crow and Sitting Bull

• Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

What marked the end of the Indian Wars?

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• surrender of Chief Joseph

• the passage of the Dawes Act

Who was the leader of the Nez Perces who said as he surrendered, "I shall fight no more forever."?

• Chief Little Crow

• Sitting Bull

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

Who was the colonel who led the attack against the Indians at Little Bighorn?

• John Chivington

• George Custer

• George Meade

• Ulysses S. Grant

How was the buffalo used?

• clothing, food, and shelter

• shelter, hunting gear

• clothing, animal skin and milk

• for everything