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The federal land policy took farmers to the great plains to earn ownership of land by settling on it. This is called homestead act. Daniel Freeman was scheduled to leave Nebraska Territory, to report for duty in St. Louis. At a New Year's Eve party the night before, Freeman met some local Land Office officials and convinced a clerk to open the office shortly after midnight in order to file a land claim.
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Army troops were guarding a fort on the Bozeman trail, while a Sioux military leader acted as a decoy and tricked the forts commander into sending about 80 soldiers after them. hundereds of worriors were waiting in ambush and killed then entire detachment, this was known as the Fetterman Massacre
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In the spring of 1868 a metting was held at Fort Laramie in Wyoming that they made a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to live within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota.
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The battle of little big horn was a battle fought between the US army and the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
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Custer led a army to check on the rumors and confirmed that there was gold at the black hills. Sitting Buyy, a leader of the lakota sioux, refused to sell the hills.
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The Sioux turned in 1890 to Wovoka witch is a prophet. They claimed the Sioux could regain there greatness if they preformed a dance called the Ghost Dance
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The wounded knee was a creek that the Sioux gathered at after the death of there Cheif, Sitting Bull.
