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Government passed the act
The federal government passed an act that designed the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation. -
Government changed the policy
The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. Native Americans spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional land, clashing with settlers and miners. -
Battle at sand creek
Most of the Cheyenne returned to Colorado's Sand Creek Reservation for the winter. Later Chivington and his troops descended on teh Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek. They killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children -
Crazy Horse ambushed
The warriour, Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge, becuase teh bowsmen trial went through the reservation to the hunting grounds. Native American called this fight Battle of the Hundred Slain. The whites called it the Fetterman Massacre. -
Treaty of Fort Laramine
The Treaty of Fort Laramine, in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, forced on the leaders of the Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull and a few others didn't sign it, they wanted to continue their traditional hunting grounds -
Red River War
War broke out yet again as the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War. The army crushed resistance on teh southern plains. -
Sun dance
The Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull has a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses. When Colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the Native Americans were ready for them. -
Dawes Act
The Daws Act "Americanized" Native Americans. The act broke up teh reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans. 160 acres goes to each head of the household and 80 acres goes to each unmarried adult. If the Native American didn't want it they sold it to the settlers and used the money for farming. -
Wounded Knew
The Seventh Cavalry, Custer's old regiment, rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp to Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. The soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon. Within minutes, the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans. The soldiers left the corpses to freeze on the ground.
