Question

4: Which of the following sentences gives a specific example of how efforts had been made to peacefully negotiate with the Indians?

A: The U.S. attempted to acquire the Black Hills by purchase but had been re-buffed by the Lakota.
B: The resisting and freely roaming bands were scattered through-out the area of Southeastern Montana.
C: The village was largely intact and from accounts had been surprised by the approaching cavalry contingents.
D: A lesser portion of the tribes determined they would continue to be independent of U.S. government authority and maintain their nomadic way of life, roaming freely throughout the Powder and Yellowstone River drainages.

Answer 1

D: A lesser portion of the tribes determined they would continue to be independent of U.S. government authority and maintain their nomadic way of life, roaming freely throughout the Powder and Yellowstone River drainages.

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