Clash+on+the+Prairie

[|Vocabulary Practice Activities]
 * **Great Plains** || The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States. ||  ||
 * **Treaty of Fort Laramie** || The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River in return for the closing of the Bozeman Trail. ||
 * **Sitting Bull** || Also known as Tatanka Iyotanka, the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. ||
 * **George A. Custer** || A colonel who reported that the Black Hills had gold, "from the grass roots down." He and his regiment set off to battle the Souix, but were surrounded and every single soldier and nearly every horse was killed in less than an hour in the Battle of Little Bighorn. ||
 * **Assimilation** || A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture. ||
 * **Dawes Act** || It broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans. The remaining land was sold to white settlers. The money was supposed to go to the Native Americans, but never did. ||
 * **Battle of Wounded Knee** || The slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Amercians, mostly women and children, left to die on the freezing encampment. It marked the end to the Indian Wars. ||
 * **Longhorn** || A type of cattle that was sturdy, short-tempered and accustomed to dry grasslands. They came originally from Spain and had long horns. ||
 * **Chisholm Trail** || The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas. ||
 * **Long drive** || The three month overland transport of cattle by cowboys. ||  ||