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Chapter 5, section 1.  The gov’t expected Native Americans to stay on the reservations  It was a problem because that made buffalo hunting almost impossible.

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1 Chapter 5, section 1

2  The gov’t expected Native Americans to stay on the reservations  It was a problem because that made buffalo hunting almost impossible

3  200 people were killed

4  He ambushed the U.S. cavalry because they kept going through his land

5  When the gov’t wasn’t able to defeat the Comanche on the battlefield, they cut off their access to food until they surrendered

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7  After gold was discovered there, the U.S. gov’t wanted the Sioux to sell their reservation land.

8  “What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one.”

9  It was a religious dance. People who practiced it believed that it would lead to a new life without suffering for the Natives.

10  40 police were sent to arrest him for performing the Ghost Dance  His body guard shot one of them  Police killed Sitting Bull

11  None of Custer’s men survived  Referred to as Custer’s Last Stand  Crazy Horse was killed in prison soon after surrendering

12  7 th Cavalry rounded up 350 starving, freezing Sioux and took them to a camp  They took their weapons  Someone fired a shot (not sure which side) and the army opened fire  Army killed all of them and left their corpses to freeze on the ground


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