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Chief Joseph

Reservations. Chief Joseph. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm. Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who resisted the government’s attempts to relocate his tribe to a reservation. Dawes Act.

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Chief Joseph

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  1. Reservations Chief Joseph http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm

  2. Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who resisted the government’s attempts to relocate his tribe to a reservation

  3. Dawes Act

  4. 1887 law which divided Indian lands among families and granted US citizenship to those who gave up tribal ties and acted more “American”

  5. Granger Movement More Power for Farmers!Fair Prices!

  6. Western farmers who worked together to improve their lives and control railroad prices

  7. If you farm the land you can have it – for free! Homestead Act

  8. 1862 act which gave 160 acres to any settler who farmed the land for 5 years

  9. Indian Treaties

  10. Agreements between tribes and the U.S. gov’t that were usually ignored when gold was found!

  11. Little Big Horn Vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

  12. Site of the 1876 battle between Sioux & Cheyenne warriors and the U.S. army led by General George Custer

  13. Reservations Don’t fence me in!

  14. Land where Native Americans were forced to live by the government

  15. Steel Plow

  16. A plow which could cut through prairie soil, or sod

  17. TranscontinentalRailroad

  18. The first railroad which connected the East Coast with the West Coast

  19. Manifest Destiny

  20. 1800's belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent

  21. Term for the farmers living on the Great Plains in the 1800s

  22. Sodbusters http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/exhibitions/pioneer/camera/46.htm

  23. Cattle Drive

  24. Moving cattle to railroad lines (West East)

  25. Wounded Knee http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm

  26. 300 Native Americans (Sioux/Lakota) were killed by the army here after fleeing the reservations as a result of Sitting Bull's death

  27. Culture

  28. Entire way of life developed by a people

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