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Many American Indians lived in towns along the ________, which made for good _____________, good _____________ and easy __________.
Algonquian languages were spoken in the __________________ region, but the ____________________ group.
Virginias American Indians worked with the _______ and their _________ to meet their basic wants.
________________ was made from materials around them.
American Indians did not believe in land _________________.
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Iroquoian language were spoken in ___________ ___________ and in __________ ____________ by the ____________ group.
The climate in Virginia is relatively _____________
Siouan language was spoken in the _______________ region, by the ___________ group.
Why did so many Americans move west to San Francisco?
Name some inventions that came about after the Industrial Revolution and how they made the economy more productive and life easier for the people.
In December 1890, Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp. 200 Sioux men, women, and children were killed. This was part of the Ghost Dance movement, a last effort of the American Indians to resist US government control and return to their way of life.
The last effort of Native Americans to resist US control and drive whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious movement. The US govt wanted to suppress the movement and during an arrest they killed the famous Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull. They also gunned down more than 200 American Indians in the battle/massacre of Wounded Knee.
areas of federal land set aside for American Indians Large tracts of lands with boundaries that the federal government set up and tried to force the Indian tribes to live on. Most refused and followed the migrating buffalo.
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. Reformers wanted to get the American Indians education, job training and convert them to Christianity so that they would be more like the white culture.
The act passed with the intent to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream of American life by breaking up tribal organizations. It divided the tribal lands into plots up to 160 acres and grated US citizenship to those Indians that stayed on the land for 25 years and adopted the habits of "civilized life". This forced assimilation failed and all were grated US citizenship.
Descendants of the first cattle brought to the New World; natural resistance to many diseases and parasites. Hardy cow borrowed from the Mexicans. Bythe 1860s, wild herds of about 5 million head of cattle roamed freely over the Texas grasslands.
A Native American physician educated at Boston University, and the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine.He is of Santee Dakota and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded thirty-two Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the Native point of view.
United States general/colonel who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux Indians (Led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) at the battle of Little Big Horn.
Sioux chief who led the successful attack on Colonel George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He was also a famous Sioux medicine man killed during his arrest when the US government tried to suppress the Ghost Dance movement.