Exploration and settlement of the western United States by Americans and Europeans wreaked havoc on the Indian peoples living there.
1.Exploration:Medic.To examine for diagnostic purposes.
Exploration and settlement of the western United States by Americans and Europeans wreaked havoc on the Indian peoples living there.
2.Settlement:The act or process of settling.Establishment,as of a person in a bysiness or of people in a new region.
From the 1860s through the 1870s the American frontier was filled with Indian wars and skirmishes.
3.frontier:An international border or the area along it.A region just beyond or beside a settled area.
4.skirmishes:A minor battle in war A minor conflict or dispute.
In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
5.Conference:A measure of a material’s ability to conduct electric charge.
6.treaty:A fomal agree-ment between two or more states.
7.reservation:The act of reserving A limiting qualification or condition.A tract of public land set apart for a special purpose,esp.one for the use of a Native American perople.
The Black Hills of Dakota are sacred to the Sioux Indians.
8.sacred:Dedicated to or set apart for worship.Worthy of religious veneration.
In 1874, however, General George A. Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills accompanied by miners who were seeking gold.
9.accompanied:To go with as a companion.To add to:supp;ement.To occur with
10.mine:Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to me.
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