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Treaty of Fort Laramie

• first major treaty between the US government and Plains Indians

• first major treaty between the US government and Navajo Indians

• first major treaty between the US government and Cherokee Indians

Reservations

• areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans

• Areas of land for the colonized people

• Areas of land for horses to settle

Crazy Horse

• Oglala Sioux chief, ambushed and killed 81 cavalry troops

• A chief of Native Americans that was killed

• Native American women who helped Lewis and Clark

Treaty of Medicine Lodge

• Indians agreed to live on reservations

• Indians did not agree to live on reservations

• Indians went on a trail to settle West

Buffalo Soldiers

• term of honor, inspired by their short, curly hair, that compared their fighting spirit to that of the buffalo

• A soldier that fights buffalo

• A solder that is used to fighting as a tool

George Armstrong Custer

• Soldiers that discovered the Black Hills of the Dakotas

• Soldiers that discovered Gold in California

• Soldiers that fought in WWI

Sitting Bull

• Leader of the Lakota Sioux, protested US demands for the lands

• Leader of the Navajo, protested US demands for the lands

• Leader of the Cherokee, protested US demands for the lands

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Sioux and Cheyenne forces led by Crazy Horse surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops

• WWI battle that resulted in Bighorn Loosing

• Soldiers that discovered Gold in the black hills

Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Last major military incident on the Great Plains

• Last major military incident on the border

• Last major military incident on the Navajo reservations

Long Walk

• 300 mile march, the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation

• 300 mile march, the Great Plains were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation

• 300 mile march, the Cherokee were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation