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The federal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormouse resorvation.
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The government chaanged its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.
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About 200 warriors 500 women and chldren camped at sand creek. 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children were killed.
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Over 80 soldiers were killed. The warrior crazy horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge
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Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, had never signed it
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War broke out yet againas the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War of 1874-1875.
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the sioux were beaten. Sitting bull and a few followers took refuge in Canada, where they remained until 1881.
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Congress past the Dawes Act aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans.
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The Seventh Cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.