Ch 17 Vocab 5-15

The agreement that allowed the U.S. government to remove Natives from their lands with force in areas for mining & farming.

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Crazy Horse

In response to Indian raids, U.S. army kills several hundred in an attack in Sand Creek, Colorado

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Crazy Horse

Former African American Union soldiers who helped fight against Natives

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Crazy Horse

a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills Dakota and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Crazy Horse

• Buffalo Soldiers

He fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn and tried to move the Sioux and Cheyennes onto a reservation even though he was outnumbered.

• Colonel Custer

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Crazy Horse

• Buffalo Soldiers

Sioux forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops

• Colonel Custer

• Sand Creek Masacre (1864)

• Crazy Horse

• Battle of Little Bighorn

Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations

• Colonel Custer

• Chief Joseph

• Crazy Horse

• Battle of Little Bighorn

300 mile march the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in New Mexico; several died on their journey.

• Colonel Custer

• Chief Joseph

• Long Walk

• Battle of Little Bighorn

After removing Natives from their land, the process of assimilating or making them more civilized to "white" ways.

• Colonel Custer

• Chief Joseph

• Long Walk

• Dawes Act