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Homestead Act of 1862
THIS GAVE 160 ACRES OF LAND TO A SETTLER WHO PAID A FILING FEE AND LIVED ON THE LAND FO FIVE YEARS THIS BROUGHT FARMERS TO THE PLAINS AND THEY STARTED TO SETTLE ON IT -
FETTERMANS MASSACRE
SIOUX MILLATARY LEADER ACTED LIKE A DECOIE TO LOURE THE THE SOLIDERS IN TO A TRAP. THE MILLATARY LEADER SENT ABOUT 80 TROOPS INTO A AREA AND THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY THE INDIANS AND KILLED -
DISCOVERY OF 1874
IN 1874 SOMEBODY STARTED A RUMER THAT SAID THAT THERE WAS GOLD ON THE BLACK HILL THAT CAUGHT THE ATENTION OF THE ARMY SO THEY WENT TO CHECK IT OUT TO FIND OUT THAT THERE WAS GKOLD IN THE HILLS -
BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN
GEORGE CUSTER WAS TOLD TO SCOUT THE NATIVE AMERICAN ENCAMPMENT SO HE DID AND HE UNDERESTEMATED THE STRENGHT OF THE INDIANS . CUSTER HAD ABOUT 250 TROOPS AND THEY TRIED TO FIGHT THOUSANDS OF INDIANS.CUSTER AND HIS ENTIRE COMAND TO LOSE THER LIVES -
GOST DANCE
THE GOST DANCE WAS A WAY FOR THE SIOUX TO EXPRESS THEIR CULTURE THAT WAS BEING DESTROID. AS THE RITUAL SPRED ,RESERVATION OFFICALS BECAME ALARMED AND DESIDED TO BAN THE DANCE. -
WOUNDED KNEE
THE ARMY WENT TO THE INDIANS CAMP TO COLLECT ALL OF THE SIOUX WEPONS. NO ONE KNOWS HOW THE FIGHTING STARTED, BUT WHEN A PISTOL SHOT RANG OUT THE ARMY RESPONDED WITH FIRE. MORE THAN 200 SIOUX AND 25 SOLDIERS WERE KILLED. WOUNDED KNEE MARKED THE END OF THE ARMED CONFLICT BTWEEN WHITES AND NATIVE AMERICANS. THE NATIVE AMERICANS LOST THEIR LONG STUGGLE