Name ________________________________ Date _______
Chapter 18 section 3 Native American
Starting in the mid-1850s, miners, railroad, cattle drives, and farmers came to the Great Plains.
Conflict (page 543)
As long as white people regarded the Plains as the “ ___________________ _____________________
______________” they left the Native Americans who lived there more or less alone.
Reservation Policy
In _____________________ the federal government appointed the Indian Peace Commission to
develop a new policy toward Native Americans
The commission recommended moving the Native Americans to _____________________________
(tracts of land set aside for them). This was a policy already in progress, but was now being enforced.
As early as 1830 Native Americans were relocated to reservations.
Little Bighorn (second column page 545)
The Lakota tribe (part of the Sioux nation) lived in the Black Hills of the Dakotas.
The government had promised “No white person or persons shall be permitted to _________________
upon or ______________________”or even to “________________________ through” these hills.
In 1874, General George Custer was sent out to the Dakotas on an expedition to see if gold really
existed in the Black Hills. Custer confirmed that there was ____________________” from the
grassroots down.”
Prospectors swarmed the area. The ______________________________ protested against the
trespassers.
The United States government tried to buy the Black Hills from the _____________________________.
Sitting Bull, an important leader of the Lakota tribe, _____________________________.
Sitting Bull gathered ____________________________ and ___________________________ warriors
along the __________________ ________________ __________________ (in present day Montana)
The U.S. army was ordered to round up the warriors and move them to _________________________.
George Custer decided to attack the Native Americans on _________________ ________ __________.
Custer underestimated the strength of the Native American forces (several thousand).
______________________ and his ___________________ command _________________ their lives.
This Native American victory was called the Battle of Little Bighorn or “Custer’s Last Stand”
The U.S. army soon crushed the uprising and by _____________________, exhausted and starving, the
_____________________ and ______________________ agreed to live on a ____________________.
The Apache Wars
Trouble broke out in the ______________________. The Chiracahau _______________had been
moved from their homeland to the San Carlos reservation in Arizona in the mid ______________.
The Apache leader, ____________________________, escaped from San Carlos and fled to
___________________________ with a small band of ___________________________.
During the 1880s he led raids against _____________________ and the ________________________
in Arizona.
In ____________________, Geronimo finally gave up - the ____________________ Native American to
_________________ __________________________ the United States.
Chief Joseph (top of page 546: People in History)
In ___________________ the U.S. government demanded the ____________ ____________ give up
their ___________________ and move onto _____________________________ in Idaho.
Chief ___________________ was preparing to move his people when he found out that several young
braves had_______________________ a group of ___________________ settlers.
Fearing __________________, Chief Joseph led his followers over _______________ miles across
_________________, _____________________, _________________, and ____________________.
For more than __________________ months he managed to evade (stay away from/escape) a U.S.
army force ___________________ times larger than his group.
Along the way, he won the ______________________ of many whites for his ____________ treatment
of __________________ and his concern for __________________, ________________, and the
____________.
Just ___________ miles from the ___________________ border, the __________ ____________ were
surrounded.
Chief Joseph surrendered (part of surrender quote)
“The little __________________ are ___________________ to death. My people…. Have no
______________ no _____________.....I am ___________________. My heart is
___________________ and _______________. From where the ___________now stands I will
______________ ____________ ____________ ___________________.”
A Changing Culture (bottom of page 546)
List the things that contributed to changing the traditional way of life of Native American
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
o _________________________________________________________________
More change came from well-meaning ___________________ who wanted to _________________
reservations and absorb the Native Americans into _____________ ____________culture.
The Dawes Act (1887) - This law aimed to ___________________________what Americans regarded as
two weaknesses of Native American life the lack of________________ _________________ and the
___________________ ___________________
The Dawes Act proposed to break up the ____________________________________ and end
______________________________ with a tribal group.
Each Native American would receive a __________________________ of reservation land.
The goal was to encourage _________________________ people to become _________________ and
eventually, ____________________ _________________.
Native American _______________________ would be sent to white run _______________
____________________.
Over the next 50 years, the government divided up the reservations. Speculators acquired most of the
_______________ __________________.
Native Americans often received __________________, _________________ plots that were not
suited for ________________________.
Wounded Knee
The Dawes Act changed forever the Native American way of life and weakened their
______________________ traditions.
The Sioux turned to ____________________________________, a prophet.
Wovoka claimed that the Sioux could regain their former greatness if they performed a ritual known as
the ________________ __________________.
Believing that ____________ ________________ was the leader of the movement, police went to his
camp to ________________ ________________, and in a scuffle, killed him.
Several hundred Lakota Sioux fled in fear. They gathered at a creek called _____________________
__________________ in Southwestern South Dakota.
On December 29, 1890, the army went to collect the Sioux’s ________________________.
No one knows how the fighting started, but a pistol rang out and more than ______________ Sioux
and ____________ soldiers were killed.
_____________________ __________________ marked the end of armed conflict between
____________________________ and ___________________ ______________________
The Native Americans had lost their long struggle.
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