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Government Restrict Native American
1834- federal government had passed an act that desgnated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes. -
Government restricts native american
1850s- government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. Most native american spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their national lands, clasing with sittlers and miners. -
Massacre at sand creek
one of the most tragic events. Most of Cheyenne, assuming they were under the protection on the U.S government, had peacefully returned to Colorado's Sand Creek Reserved for the winter. General R Curtis ( U.S Army commander in West ) sent telegram to militia colonel John Chivington that read "i want no peace till the indians suffer more."
in results about 200 warrirors and 500 women and children - camped at Sand Creek. the attack at dawn on November 29, 1864 killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly -
Death on the bozeman trail
The bozeman Trail ran directly through Sioux hunting grounds in the Bighorn Mountains.
In december 1866 the warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fettrman and his company at LodgeTrail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. Native americans called this fight the Battle of the Hunddred Slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.
skirmishes continued until the government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
in return theTreaty of Fort Laramie, in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the missouri river, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux in 1868. -
Red river war 1874-75
In late 1868, war broke out yet again as the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River of 1874-1875. The U.S Army responded by herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservation while opening fire on all others. General Philip Shediran ordered to drestroy villages and ponies, to kill and hang all warriors and to bring back all women and children. -
Custers last stand
In early June 1876, the Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native American fallins from their horses. When colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the Native American were ready for them. Within an hour , Custer and his troops were dead. By late 1876, howevere the Sioux were beaten. -
The Dawes Act
In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes act, aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to the individual Native American. 160 acres to each head of the household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. -
The Battle of wounded knee
On December 28, 1890, the seventh Calvary- Custers old regiment- rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day the soldiers demanded that the Native American give up all their weapon.
