Nebraska Adventure Ch. 9

The government thought it was helping the Indians by:

• building their houses for them

• giving them more cows to hunt

• putting them on reservations

• sending them to an island

What two things helped cause the buffalo to disappear?

• cold weather and too much water

• railroad and hot weather

• no food and mule skinners

• railroad and mule skinners

Which was not a cause of Indian Wars?

• Buffalo were being killed for no reason

• Indian lands were being claimed by strangers.

• Treaties were broken

• Indian trails were being destroyed.

Why were the Sioux moved from the Black Hills?

• Gold was found there, so the government bought the land.

• Settlers wanted the land for its black soil.

• They wanted to move to a different reservation.

• Railroad companies wanted to build a railroad there.

What was important about Standing Bear's court case?

• It gave Indians their land back.

• It caused the government to recognize Indians as people under the law.

• The court said Standing Bear's people could go back to Nebraska.

• It gave Indians free land for homesteading.

Indians kept all of their old ways of life when they were put on reservations.

• true

• false

The Sioux attacked the Pawnee while the Pawnee were hunting in Massacre Canyon.

• true

• false

Buffalo Soldiers were black men who served at Fort Robinson and Niobrara.

• true

• false

Joseph La Flesche wanted his people's lives to stay the same as they had always been.

• true

• false

As time passed, life on reservations improved.

• true

• false