Indian Claims Commission - answerdischarge claims by Native Americans for land
taken by the Government
American Indian Movement (AIM) - answerled by Dennis Banks and Russell Means;
purpose was to obtain equal rights for Native Americans; protested at the site of the
Wounded Knee massacre
Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868) - answerAn agreement between the United States and the
Native American tribes of the Lakota nation, Yanktonai Sioux, Santee Sioux, and
Arapaho; it was signed April 29, 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory. The
United States government agreed to the abandonment of the Bozeman Trail and the
recognition of the country north of the North Platte River and east of the Bighorn
Mountains in northern Wyoming as "unceded Indian territory" in which no whites might
settle. Additionally, all of present-day South Dakota west of the Missouri River was
defined as the Great Sioux Reservation.
Article 12 Ft. Laramie Treaty - answer
Powder River War - answer
Fair Market Value - answerThe price paid to Native Americans for land that was forcibly
taken from them at the value back when it was taken
Indian Territory - answerAn area to which Native Americans were moved covering what
is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska
Standing Bear v. Crook - answerCourt case in 1879 Nebraska, in which Ponca Chief,
Standing Bear, was arrested for returning to his homelands after the Indian Removal
Act to bury his son's bones in their tribes burial grounds. Standing Bear sued for habeas
corpus (wrongfully detained). The court case came down to one argument: is a native
american a person? No other natives have sued for habeas corpus before, so the judge
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