Glossary

tribe of Native Americans living on the Great Plains

a balde attached to the end of a rifle used in fighting

Native American tribe that lived on the Great Plains

He led a regiment of Colorado Volunteers to the Cheyenne's Sand Creek reservation, where a band led by Black Kettle, a well-known "peace" chief, was camped.

Federal army officers had promised Black Kettle safety if he would return to the reservation, and he was in fact flying the American flag and a white flag of pace over his camp, but Chivington ordered an attack on the unsuspecting village.  

U.S. Army base in Colorado

a spiritual leader in Native American tribes

providing relief

a surprise attack by a small armed force

land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans

located in the Colorado territory; it was the location of the Sand Creek Massacre

shelter for nomadic Indians living on the Great Plains

cries out