Battle on the Plains

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1834	Government passed the act	The federal government passed an act that designed the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation.
01/01/1850	Government changed the policy	The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. Native Americans spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional land, clashing with settlers and miners.
11/29/1864	Battle at sand creek	Most of the Cheyenne returned to Colorado's Sand Creek Reservation for the winter. Later Chivington and his troops descended on teh Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek. They killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children
12/01/1866	Crazy Horse ambushed	The warriour, Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge, becuase teh bowsmen trial went through the reservation to the hunting grounds. Native American called this fight Battle of the Hundred Slain. The whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.
01/01/1868	Treaty of Fort Laramine	The Treaty of Fort Laramine, in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, forced on the leaders of the Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull and a few others didn't sign it, they wanted to continue their traditional hunting grounds
01/01/1874	Red River War	War broke out yet again as the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War. The army crushed resistance on teh southern plains.
06/01/1876	Sun dance	The Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull has a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses. When Colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the Native Americans were ready for them.
01/01/1887	Dawes Act	The Daws Act "Americanized" Native Americans. The act broke up teh reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans. 160 acres goes to each head of the household and 80 acres goes to each unmarried adult. If the Native American didn't want it they sold it to the settlers and used the money for farming.
12/28/1890	Wounded Knew	The Seventh Cavalry, Custer's old regiment, rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp to Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. The soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon. Within minutes, the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans. The soldiers left the corpses to freeze on the ground.