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 Red Cloud 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 Sioux 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)__________________., George Armstrong Custer led about 250 soldiers in an attack against Sioux and Cheyenne 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. .