Indians on the Great Plains Homework
8.The following pairs match Indian chiefs with the tribes that they led in resistance to the whites. The incorrect pair is
Sitting Bull—Arapaho
15.In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians.
9.Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
the Yurok
2. The Treaty of Fort Laramie was significant because it ________ and _________.
was forced on the US/gave the Lakota the Black Hills
6. By the early nineteenth century, the most powerful tribe in the Missouri River valley was the
Sioux
1. What was the name of the Indian chief at the Sand Creek Massacre?
Black Kettle
7.Which chief led his tribe on an incredible trek of defensive battles that covered over 1300 miles toward the Canadian border?
Chief Joseph
13.The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was
Chief Joseph.
4. The 1887 law that tried to force Indians to assimilate into white society by ending tribal ownership of land and distributing it to individual tribe members was the
Dawes Act
18. Wovoka
Indian shaman who began the Ghost Dance
3. White settlement of the Great Plains west of the Mississippi occurred because of
all of the answers below
10.The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century
happened almost entirely in the space of a single decade, destroying the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers.
11.The Sand Creek massacre of 1864
involved the killing of Indian women and children.
20. Chief Black Kettle
leader of Cheyenne at Chivington's Massacre
16. Chief Joseph
leader of the Nez Perce
17. Chief Red Cloud
leader of the Sioux at the Fetterman Massacre
19. Sitting Bull
leader of the Sioux at the battle of the Little Big Horn
5. Sand Creek and the Washita River are associated with the
massacre of peaceful Plains Indians
12.The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn
was a short-lived Indian victory.
14. In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"
was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.
