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Reservations
Land set aside for Indians to live on
Sitting Bull
He led a rebellion against the white settlers
Chief Joseph
His nez perce tribe was moved to a reservation in Oklahoma
Wounded Knee
Sioux and US Calvary met in a conflict and ended Indian resistance
Sand Creek Massacre
US calvary attacked the Cheyenne Indians
Fort Laramie Treaty
Sioux Indians agreed to live on reservation and be supported by the US government- in exchange the US government would not build a railroad through their land
Battle of Little Big Horns
Custer and his men were killed by Crazy horse and his men
Dawes General Allotment Act
Replaced the reservation system and gave Indians land to farm
Peace Commission
Only way for peace was if the Indians adopted the white man's ways
Assimilate
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society
What about the Indians?
Indians- lost their ways of life with westward expansion, had no immunity to disease, were forced to live on reservations, destruction of the buffalo