Indigenous "Resettlement"

All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:

• Native Americans were moved to reservations.

• Native Americans died from new diseases.

• Native Americans were paid well for their land.

• Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

What did Native Americans use the Buffalo for?

• Food

• Shelter

• Clothing

• All of the above

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

The Dawes Act demonstrates that the U.S. government was seeking to:

• suppress Native American dissent for the policies of the U.S. government.

• resolve the Native American issue without further military engagement.

• cut off all future aid to Native Americans.

• relinquish all territorial claims to lands once controlled by Native Americans.

The Bursum Bill....

• settled land disputes between Spanish and French settlers

• settled land disputes between Native Americans and White settlers

• was passed through NM Senate

site of a murderous battle between U.S. soldiers and Lakota men, women, and children

• annuities
• assimulate
• Wounded Knee
• Buffalo

A serious toll was taken on Native Americans from the advancing
American settlers, the loss of hunting grounds, forced movement, and

• broken treaties. 
• drought.
• the Civil War.
• immigration.

Roaming vast distances, the Sioux and the Dakota were

• farmers.
• trappers.
• nomads.
• miners.

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

• boomtown

• reservation

• frontier

• Great Plains

A name given to African Americans serving in the army in the West by Native Americans

• Exoduster

• buffalo soldier

• vaquero

• boomtown