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Bureau of Indian Afairs
-Agency of the federal governement within the U.S department of Interior
-Responsible for the management of 55,700,000 acres of land for the Native Americans -
Indian Removal Act
-Indains walked on the Trail of Tears
-Forced Indians to reservations
-Indians not treated equally
-Resulted in many wars -
Indian Appropriations Act
-Several Acts passed by the U.S Congress to take away Native Americans Rights
-Allocated funds to move Indians west -
Homestead Act
-Signed by president Lincoln
-Anyone who had never stood up to the U.S government even freed slaves could file a land grant at little or no cost -
Cheyenne Uprising
-Black Kettle signed and agreement in 1861
-Tribe moved to Sand Creeke, Colorado
-Land was hard and infertile and was opened to White settlement
-Indians were straving because of no buffalo
-Resorted to stealing -
Sand Creeke Massacre
-Happened during the Gold Rush
-Between the Americans and the Indians
-Colorado territory militia attacked the Cheyenne village -
Red Cloud's War
-Between the Lakota, Cheyenne and the Northern Arapaho Indians
-Fought of the Powder River Country
-Named after the Lakato Indian Chief Red Cloud -
Fetterman Massacre
-Battle during Red Clouds War
-Battle between the Lakota, Cheyenne,the Arapaho, and the soldiers of the U.S army
-Soldiers led by Captain Williem J. Fetterman were killed by the Indians
-Worst military disaster on the Great Plains -
Fort Laramie Treaty
-Compromise between the Sioux and the White men
-Trying to bring peace between them
-Sioux agreed to settle in the Blacke Hills on a reservation -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
-1,907 mile long railroad from San Francisco, California to Omaha, Nebraska
-Built by the Union Pacific Railroad Company -
Battle of Little Bighorn
-7th Calvary led by General Custard
-Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes
-Custard and the 7th Calvary lost the battle -
Capture of Nez Perce
-Between the U.S army and the Nez Perce with their allies from other tribes
-Nez Perce did not agree with the treaty
-Nez Perce forced to removal to Idaho -
Pratt Boarding School
-Establisked by Richard Henry Pratt
-Established to school indians
-Helped Indians understand white people and their government -
Capture of Geronimo
-Prominant chief of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe
-Fought against Mexico and Texas for expansion of the tribe
-Captured by General Miles -
Bill Cody's "Wild West Show"
-Bill Cody A.K.A Buffalo Bill
-Was an American scout, Bison hunter, and served in the Civil and Indian War
-Started competing in show that showed cowboy trhemes and episodes -
Dawes Act
-Authorized the president of the U.S.to divide American Indian land into allotments for individual indians
-Those who were seperate from the tribe were granted citizenship -
Desert Land Act
-Passed to encourage and promote the economic developement
-Also passed to improve the Western, public lands in the U.S
-Trying to irrigate and cultivate arid and semiarid public lands -
Wounded Knee Massacre
-Took place at Wounded Knee Creeke on the Lakota Indian Reservation in South Dakota
-Between the U.S Calvary and the Indians -
Turner Thesis
-Arguement advanced by Fredrick Jackson Turner
-The American Democracy was fromed by the American Frontier
-Turner stressed the process of moving the forntier line and influencing the pioneers
