Indigenous Resistance

Vocabulary flashcards identifying key leaders, battles, and events of Indigenous resistance against removal and assimilation.

Sitting Bull

Lakota Sioux chief and famous resistance leader whose forces, alongside warriors led by Crazy Horse, defeated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876 battle in present-day Montana where forces under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse surrounded and defeated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and his troops.

Crazy Horse

Warrior leader who, alongside Sitting Bull, led forces to defeat Lieutenant Colonel George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Lieutenant Colonel George Custer

U.S. Army commander whose troops were surrounded and defeated by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Ghost Dance movement

A spiritual revival in 1890 that frightened U.S. authorities, during which Sitting Bull was killed by police.

Wounded Knee

Site in South Dakota where U.S. troops massacred hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children in 1890, marking the last major military conflict between the U.S. Army and Indigenous peoples.

Chief Joseph

Nez Percé leader who led his people on a 1,170-mile retreat across the Northwest in 1877 and delivered the famous surrender speech, 'I will fight no more forever.'

Bear's Paw Mountain

Location 40 miles from the Canadian border where Chief Joseph was captured in 1877 after outmaneuvering U.S. Army forces for months.

Geronimo

Apache leader who waged a fierce guerrilla campaign against U.S. and Mexican forces in the desert Southwest until surrendering in 1886.