Mr. O’Donnell’s Class Chapter 18 Section 3

Name: ______Period: ______Number: _OD- _

DIRECTIONS: Use your textbook pages 542-547 to fill in the following blanks using the words in this box.

Ghost Dance Little Bighorn River Sitting Bull Wounded Knee Indian Peace Commission Dawes Act June 25, 1876 December 29, 1890

Black Hills Buffalo Reservations Crazy Horse Little Crow Killed

Following the Buffalo

Chief (1)______said “The white children have surrounded me and left me nothing but an island. The (2)______provided most of the essentials of life.

American hunters, hired by the railroads, killed thousands of buffalo.

Conflict

In 1867 the federal government appointed the (3)______, which recommended moving Native Americans to (4)______. Armed clashes took place between

Native Americans and whites. In the Minnesota Territory, (5)______led Sioux

Warriors in attacks against white settlers. At the Fetterman Massacre, (6)______acted as a decoy, leading to the ambush of government troops. Conflict with the Sioux erupted over the rumor that there was gold in the (7)______of the Dakotas.

When the government tried to buy land, (8)______, a Lakota Sioux leader, refused to sell. On (9)______., led about 250 soldiers in an attack against Sioux and warriors who had gathered along the

(10)______. Custer and all his troops were killed. In 1887 Congress passed the (11)______, which proposed to break up the reservations and end tribal

group identification.

TURN OVER The ritual (12)______was a way for the Sioux to express their own culture.

In an attempt to stop the ritual, the army went to South Dakota to arrest Sitting Bull

During a scuffle he was (13)______. On (14)______soldiers killed more than 300 Lakota Sioux who had gathered at a creek called

(15)______, which ended the armed conflict with Native Americans.