Native American Struggles

The last armed conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. military was _______?

• The Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Fetterman's Massacre

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Sand Creek Massacre

During Westward Expansion Native Americans suffered a reduction in population due to

• warfare and disease

• drought and disease

• assimilation and treaties

• wildfires and dust storms

Who was the last Native American from the Apache tribe to formally surrender to the U.S. military?

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

This Native American chief was known for attempting to lead the Nez Perce to Canada to avoid living on the reservation.

• Chief Big Kettle

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Joseph

The Plains Indians primary source of food, shelter and clothing was which animal?

• fish

• buffalo

• deer

• cattle

The land set aside for Native Americans to live on was called a(n) _____________.

• prison

• reservation

• internment camp

• resettlement land

The goal of the Dawes Act was the _______________ of the Native American into American society.  

• annihilation

• preservation

• reservation

• assimilation

Native American movement from place to place following the herds of buffalo is known as what type of lifestyle?

• civilized

• generous

• boring

• nomadic

The Battle of the Little Bighorn

• involved the surrender and accidental massacre of 200-300 Sioux by the U.S. Army

• occurred when Col. John Chivington attacked a group of Cheyenne and Arapahoe.

• involved a sneak attack on a large group of Plains Indians by Lt. Col. Custer and his small group of soldiers

• occurred when Crazy Horse lured 80 US soldiers into an ambush near the Bozeman Trail.

Which two statements are true of the conflict between Native Americans and the US government between 1860-1890?

• The Massacre at Wounded Knee was the final event of Plains Indians resistance.

• Lt. Col. Custer was defending homesteaders at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

• The United States government broke many land treaties with Native tribes.

• Sitting Bull was the last Native American Apache chief to surrender to the U.S. military