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Conflict on the Great Plains
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Homestead Act
Congress passes the Homestead Act. It gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for5 years. It brought farmers to the plains to homestead.Women who were married did not have rights to the land.In Colorado and Wyoming 12% of all those who filed Homestead claims were women. -
Fetterman Massacre
Army Troops were maintaing a fort used by prospectors to reach gold mines in Montana. A sioux military leader acted as a decoy and lured troops into a deadly trap. He tricked a comander into sending 80 soldiers to pursuit. Hundreds waited in ambush and wiped out the whole detachment . This was known as the Fettterman Massacre. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
A treaty was suppose to bring peace but the fighting remained for a few years later. A new conflict was over the Black Hills in the Dakotas. The government said that no whir man would beable to go on or pass through the hills.A man named Sitting Bull a leader of the Lakota Sioux protests against the trespassers. He gathered Sioux and Cheyenne warriors along the Little Bighorn River in Montana.The triumph at Bighorn was short lived and the Native Americans were forced to lived on reservations. -
Discovery Of 1874
The Government had promised that no white man could not Cross the Black Hills until the hills were rumored that it contained Gold. In 1874 a cluster of soldiers,(An Army) to check the rumors and confirm if it was true and that their was gold from the grass roots down. Prospectors swarmed into the area. -
Ghoust Dance
The Daws Act cam into affect.It changed the Native American way of life and weakend their cultural traditions. In despair the sioux turned in 1890 to Wovoka, a prophet. Wovoka said that the Sioux could regain their greatness by preforming a ritual known as the Ghoust Dance. -
Wounded Knee
Several hundred Sioux gatherd at a creek called Wounded knee after sitting bulls death. The army had gone to collect the sioux weapons. know one knew how the fighting started but until a pistol shot off the army started to fire back. More than 200 sioux and 25 sldieers died.
