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Bureau of indian affairs
in charge of over 500 tribes and territories and their treaties -
Indian removal act
president was able to rmove Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their land -
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Fort Laramie treaty
A federal government treaty with a number of prominent American Indian tribes of the Great Plains -
Homestead act
It was made for most anyone to perchase land in the west -
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competition of the trasncontinental railroad
Signed to have a railroad stretch across the US -
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Little crows war
He decides to fight because of his starving people annd others wanting to -
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Cheyenne uprising
cheyenne were moved to impossible living conditions and they started to attack wagon trains -
Sand creek massacre
Colonel Chivington, attacked Black Kettle's Cheyenne camp at Sand Creek -
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Red couds war
war between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho -
fetterman massacre
Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his me were on a road north of Fort Phil Kearney was ambushed by about 2000 indians -
Indian appropriation act
Congress directed that all Indians should be treated as individuals undeer law -
Camp grant massacre
Fight against pinal and aravaipa apaches who surrendered to the US -
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The lokota war
lokota sioux and cherenne fough the US over gold in their land -
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Battle of little bighorn
custers last stand was one of the most devistating defeats for the US army against th sioux -
Dead mans hand
Wild bill hickok dies with two aces and two eghts -
Desert land act
promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands -
Capture of the nez perce
were captured 30 miles from there escape to canada -
Pratt boarding school
a boarding school for Indian children -
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century of dishonor
a nook about the native americans experiences in the US -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo surrenderd because the apaches were out numbered and he became the last indian worrier to formally do so -
Dawes act
Act on division of reservations by granting land to native americans -
bill codys " wild west show "
A show on western exibitions -
Yosemite national park
This national park was established -
wounded knee massacre
soldiers opened fire on a group of Sioux at the Pine Ridge reservation -
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forest act
gave US president ability to set aside land as national forest -
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turner thesis
an argument american democracy was formed by the american frontier -
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End of Buffalo
about the end of the buffalo population where they were almost all hunted down
