SD Studies Final Test Complete Questions And Answers

winter count - Answer-a record of history that Plains Indians, including the Lakota, drew to document their past Wind Cave - Answer-the Lakota origin story says that the Oyate (people) emerged from there Oyate &/or Oceti Sakowin - Answer-the Lakota, Dakota, & Nakota La Verendrye - Answer-wrote the first known accounts of Europeans visiting the northern plains native people and left a lead plate dated 1743 later found at Ft. Pierre fossil & geological record - Answer-shows that South Dakota was once an ocean with many sea animals and plants, most of the eastern part of SD was once covered with glaciers, and the climate was also subtropical at one time. Westward Expansion - Answer-changed life for the Oceti Sakowin through farming, moving to reservations, and changing roles of people in families Black Elk Peak - Answer-the tallest mountain east of the Rockies up to the Swiss Alps and is also a sacred site to the Lakota people Sue - Answer-the dinosaur that was found near Faith, SD, was the most complete specimen of T-Rex ever found at that time Devil's Tower & Bear Butte - Answer-These two sacred Lakota sites are associated with each other by an animal story and called Mato Tipila and Mato Paha Black Hills - Answer-He Sapa, Paha Sapa, the "Heart of All That Is" are all names for it Bear Butte - Answer-a sacred Lakota prayer site for vision quests/fasting and hanbleciyapi or "crying for a vision"Lewis and Clark Expedition - Answer-opened the Missouri River to future exploration and settlement, scientific information was gathered about "new" plants and animals, their maps and journals were published in eastern newspapers bringing future explorers and settlers Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 - Answer-the Lakota and other tribes allowed roads and military posts to be built across their lands and the Lakota, Crow, Cheyenne and several other tribes agreed to tribal boundaries and promised peace with one another. Treaty of Traverse des Sioux - Answer-land was ceded in the future states of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota for $1.6 million in annuity payments Yankton Cession Treaty - Answer-14 million acres ceded in the southeast area of the future state of South Dakota for $1.6 million in annuities and a 400,000 acre reservation in what is now Charles Mix Country was created for the tribe Yellowstone Expedition Treaties - Answer-signed with 12 different tribes to establish trade and acknowledge the sovereignty of the United States Government over the land, stated that they may not sell, give or trade guns or ammunition with any other tribe not friendly with the US "Mormon Cow" - Answer-incident led to the death of Chief Conquering Bear and the retaliatory killing of Lt. Grattan and his entire command, violating the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 Dakota Sioux Uprising - Answer-Govt promised Sioux annuities for living on their reservation but Sioux didn't receive their annuities, resulted in death of 600 settlers, the execution of 38 Santee, clemency to an additional 265 of the Dakota who were sentenced to death, and the Santee Dakotas were relocated to the Crow Creek Reservation in Dakota Territory Homestead Act - Answer-1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years for a minimal fee Yankton - Answer-selected as the capitol of Dakota Territory after a heated battle with Sioux Falls over its locationHugh Glass - Answer-he was mauled by a grizzly bear near current-day Lemmon, SD and crawled to Ft. Kiowa for help before seeking revenge on the men who left him to die Arikara War - Answer-1823 marks the beginning of the use of military force against the Native people in the northern Great Plains after an attack on a fur trading party Fifth Amendment - Answer-The Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1868 was never properly amended by a 3/4 vote of adult males necessary to make changes so in 1980 the US Supreme Court ruled that the treaty was illegally amended and the Sioux and Cheyenne were entitled to just compensation for the taking of their property under the Bozeman Trail - Answer-The Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1868 closed down the military posts and the __________ as a result of the defeat of the US military in Red Cloud's War. Lt. Col. George Custer - Answer-led 1,000 men on the 1874 Expedition into the Black Hills that found gold at French Creek and was later killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn when he engaged against a much larger force of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors