The West Pt. 2 Flashcards
Areas of land set aside from Native Americans.
reservation
The Nez Perce leader. He tried to lead his people to Canada to escape being placed on a reservation.
Chief Joseph
He created Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show that helped to create most of the mythology about the old West.
Buffalo Bill Cody
A Lakota War Chief that fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Crazy Horse
Lakota Medicine man at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He was killed shortly before the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Sitting Bull
He led the 7th calvalry to a major loss at the Battle of Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer
He was a U.S. Colonel. He led the massacre at Sand Creek
John Chivington
He was a Cheyenne Chief whose followers were killed at Sand Creek.
Black Kettle
Why did the U.S. government break treaties they had signed with Native Americans?
The U.S. government broke treaties to gain land that they thought would be valuable because of resources and good white settlement.
Custer and the 7th Cavalry were defeated and killed by the Lakota and Cheyenne who were trying to keep their land.
Battle of Little Bighorn
How was the performance of the Ghost Dance related to what happened at Wounded Knee?
US was trying to perform ghost dance.
This divided up the reservations into family farms. It hoped to make Indians into family farms.
Dawes Act
Black Kettle signed a treaty with the U.S. government. Early in the morning before sunrise, Chivington supplied members of the Colorado Territory militia with whiskey for warmth and attacked Black Kettle’s camp. Many of the young warriors were away from camp hunting. Chivington’s men massacred all in the camp. Scalps and various body parts of the victims were taken by members of the militia as trophies. Chivington claimed he defeated 500 warriors on the warpath instead of 100-200 old men, women, and children. He was called a hero by U.S. newspapers.
The Sand Creek Massacre
