Answer: 1 Buffalo Bill Cody earned his nickname by hunting and killing over 4,000 buffalo, and his status as an Old West legend was cemented with his traveling Wild West show. Buffalo Bill was inspired by real-life serial killers, such as: Jerry Brudos, who dressed up in his victims' clothing and kept their shoes. Ed Gein, who fashioned trophies and keepsakes from the bones and skin of corpses he dug up at cemeteries.
2 By the year 1885 the buffalo herd had decreased to 200. Native Americans believe that this policy was out in place to weaken them. Their numbers decreased as well. The slaughter of the buffalo and lack of food caused the tribes to become ill and die of diseases.
3 The 1867 Peace Commission was an attempt to bring peace to western lands by creating reservations for Indian tribes, enabling white settlers to claim former Indian territories and railroads to continue to lay tracks toward the Pacific, thus fulfilling the doctrine of Manifest Destiny.
4 The Indian Appropriations Act As white settlers continued westward and needed more land, Indian territory shrank—but there was no more land for the government to move them to. ... Indians were not allowed to leave the reservations without permission. In the nineteenth century, Native Americans were confined to reservations to open ... settlers used a variety of methods to wrest land away from indigenous people, ... of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way ... Why did the US government split up reservations into individual plots of land
5 The soldiers rode straight into the ambush and were wiped out in a massive attack during which some 40,000 arrows rained down on the hapless troopers. None of them survived. With 81 fatalities, the Fetterman Massacre was the army's worst defeat in the West until the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
6 The Sioux peoples' treaty rights were constantly violated by gold prospectors, who kept crossing the reservation border. When they were attacked by our people defending their land, the United States government seized the Black Hills, in 1877 – illegally. ... And so the Black Hills were stolen from us.
7 Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was the Native American chief under whom the ... but when gold was discovered there in 1874, the U.S. government ... The treaty created the Great Sioux Reservation and earmarked additional land for the Sioux in ... as more explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans ...
8 At mid-day on June 25, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. ... Despite Custer's desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and all of his soldiers were dead.
9 The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty.
10 According to Noble David Cook, a community of scholars has recently, albeit slowly, "been quietly accumulating piece by piece data on early epidemics in the Americas and their relation to the subjugation of native peoples." They now believe that widespread epidemic disease, to which the natives had no prior exposure
11 Population figures for the indigenous people of the Americas prior to colonization have proven ... The extent and causes of decline have been characterized as genocide. ... total population was approximately 53.9 million and the populations by region
12 Montana
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876. The combatants were warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, battling men of the 7th Regiment of the US Cavalry.
13 South Dakota
Wounded Knee Massacre, (December 29, 1890), the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
14 The Fetterman Fight took place on Crow Indian land that was guaranteed to them ... from Fort Laramie into the Powder River country,
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