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Homesteadd Act of 1862
It gave settlers 160 free achers of land. You had to pay a filing fee and had to live on the land for five years. -
Fetterman Massacre
The Sioux tribe attacked an U.S army gaurding the bozeman trail used for gold mining. the leader witch acted like a decoy for the sioux was Crazy Horse. the comander sent about 80 soldiers after him witch lured them into a death trap. Hundreds of warriors were waiting for them and ambushed the all the soldiers. the Sioux whipped out all of the soldiers. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The spring of 1868 there was a confrence held at Fort Laramie in Wyoming. The meeting was about a treaty with the Sioux and the whites to try and bring peace between them. The Sioux agreed to settle in the Black Hills resevation in the Dakota tarritory. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Sioux and the Cheyenne tribe gathered along the Little Bighorn river in presnent day Montana. The U.S army was comanded to gather up all the Sioux and Cheyenne worriers and put them into reservations. George Custer, the leader of the seventh cavalry, attacted the two tribes on June 25th 1876. Custer and all his men died in battle that day. -
Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee is a fiver in southwestern South Dakota. The Sioux gathered at this river after Sitting Bulls death. On this day the U.S army came to collect the Sioux wepons. On December 29, 1890 a shot rang out and the sioux and U.S army started fighting. At the end of the fight there was more than 200 Sioux and 25 U.S soldiers dead. -
Ghost Dance
It was a ritual that was preformed my the Sioux to regain their formal greatness. -
1874 Discovery
There was a treaty that said that no white man will come into the black hills even to pass through. Peoble came to discover the gold in the mountains and made the Sioux protest the treaty.
