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  1. Explain the impact of the horse on the Indians? What change occurred in the mid-1700s?
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Allowed them to travel farther and more efficiently. By 1700’s many had left their farms to roam the plains and hunt buffalo

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  1. What was the major difference between the Osage and Iowa tribes of the Missouri River and the Cheyenne and Lakota of the Plains?
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a. Osage and Iowa tribes settled along the Missouri River

b. Cheyenne and Lakota were nomadic

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  1. What is “counting coup?”
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a practice that gained warrior honor

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  1. How were leaders of the tribe chosen? How was land use determined?
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No individual ruled the group. Leaders ruled by counsel. Land was held in common for the whole tribe.

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  1. What year was the Sand Creek Massacre? What role did Col. Chivington play in the massacre?
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  1. Col. Chivington lead the massacre.
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Chief of the Sioux = unsuccessfully appealed white settlement on the Bozeman trail

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red cloud

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Sioux leader who did not sign the Ft. Laramie treaty

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sitting bull

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warrior who started the battle of Hundred Slain when ambushed Captain Fetterman and killed over 80 soldiers

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crazy horse

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  1. What was the main goal of the Dawes Act (Allotment Act)?
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natives to white

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List the specific actions taken according to the Dawes Act?

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a. Broke up reservations à forced natives to want/own land

b. Make natives farm

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  1. What to groups have been recorded as reaching the Americas before Columbus?
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vikings euros

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  1. What did Columbus force the Natives to do?
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bring gold

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What happened if no gold done by the natives was not efficient enough for Columbus?

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They were killed in groups of 13 = represents Christ and the 12 disciples

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  1. What did the Spaniards believe about conquering the Americas?
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It was their god given right

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  1. What was the Requirement?
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The rules that the natives must follow. And the outcome if they did not follow those rules.

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  1. What happened if the boys did not attend these schools?
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Their rations were cut

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  1. What did the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 establish? And what did it aim to do?
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Establishes the Great Sioux Reservation. Aimed to stop violence between the settlers and natives

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List and explain the misunderstanding between the whites and the natives

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Natives didn’t believe in owning private property or owning the earth.

b. Religion was based on nature and they considered all things sacred.
c. Natives had a subsistent economy and didn’t understand the idea of accumulating wealth.

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  1. What was Grattan’s Fight?
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A battle between the natives and the whites. Result of a native killing a dying cow. And the whites wanting to kill the Indian in return

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  1. What is Grattan’s Fight evidence of?
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US military attitude toward Native Americans – lack of respect and of understanding

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  1. What is Chivington’s Massacre also called?
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Sand Creek

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  1. What right does the Treaty of 1868 give to the natives?
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They can hunt buffalo on the land as long as there are enough buffalo to justify the hunt

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  1. What must be done for an Indian to claim land? What does it result in?
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He must give his name to the Indian agent. à Natives given white Christian names

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  1. How does the treaty show the natives that farming is valued more than hunting?
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Those who farm are given more money than those who hunt.

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  1. What is an Indian agent? What is his/her job?
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A person who works for the government and lives on the reservation to watch over the idians. They distribute rations and give land.

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  1. What is the commissioner of Indian affairs? What is his/her job?
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The person who determines what happens to the Indians on the reservation. They live in D.C

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  1. What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
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A battle between the Indians (Cheyenne and Lakota and Gen. Custer) 1875

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  1. What is the name of the reservation Sitting Bulls’ people settled on?
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Standing Rock

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  1. What is the name of the reservation Red Cloud’s people settled on?
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Pine Ridge

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  1. What does the Federal Court Case of 1883 do?
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Prevent the speaking of the Lakota language

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  1. What amendment does the outcome of the 1883 case undemand?
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1st

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  1. What is Hunkpapa Lakota?
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Sitting Bull’s people fled standing rock and join big foot on his journey to the Pine Ridge Reservation

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  1. What does the Dawes Act do?
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Establishes the 7 reservations

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  1. What was the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
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The mass killing of hundreds of unarmed natives

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  1. What did the Massacre at Wounded Knee mark?
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End of Indian resistance to being placed on reservations

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  1. What do the Lakota refer to the Massacre at Wounded Knee as?
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The day the “circle was broken”

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  1. What does “circle was broken” signify?
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The circle = sacred to the Lakota = symbolizes how all people are related and connected.

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