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In 1834, the federal governtment had passed an act that designated the entire great plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for the native american tribes.
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In the 1850s the government changed its policies and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. Most Native Americans still huntedt on their old grounds, with tragic results, clashing with settlers and miners.
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In the winter of 1864 the Cheyenne returned to their Colorado Sand creeck reserve, where general S.R. Curtis attacked them and killed over 150 peolpe, mostly women and children.
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Because whites were building the bozeman trail right through a hunting groung of the Siouxs and wouldn't stop after the Sioux chef asked them to, the Sioux's killed 80 soldiers.
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In the treaty of Fort Laramie the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, however Sitting Bull, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, had never signed it.
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The U.S. army herded the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. They destroyed all villages and ponies, killed all warriors and brought back all women and children.
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Colonel Custer attacked with his troops the natives, who where prepared, because they had a vision in the last sun dance. The Native warriors outflanked and crushed Cluster's troops, within an hour all of his man were dead. However in the late 1876 the Sioux got beaten.
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In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act aiming to Americanize the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave some of the land of the reservations land to individual Native Americans. 160 acres to each head of the household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government would sell the rest of the land to settlers and would give the monez to the settlers to buy farm implements. At the end the Natives received no money from the sales.
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In 1800 there were about 65 million Buffalos, in 1890 fewer than 1000 remainded.
