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Sand Creek Massacre
Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were massacred by Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado. The causes of the Sand Creek massacre were caused by a long conflict for control of the Great Plains. Most of the people killed were women and children. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty
In October 1867 a U.S. Indian Peace Commission signed three treaties at Medicine Lodge Creek near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. The United States promised the tribes peace and protection from white intruders in return for amity and relocation to reservations in western Indian Territory. Both the United States and the tribes failed to honor a number of articles in the treaties. -
2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie
An agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory. It was a treaty guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills. The treaty also ended Red Cloud's war. -
Ghost Dance movement begins
The Ghost Dance movement was a manifestation of Native Americans hatred toward the U.S. Their lands had been confiscated and their lifestyle was ruined by U.S. government policies. The orginal Gost Dance was on Walker Lake Reservation in Nevada. Tribal Indian life would soon return, that the dead would come back to life, and that the animals the Indians killed would be restored. -
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
The Indians hid in the Palo Duro Canyon from the United States calvary. They were told they wou;d be safe there but the U.S. quickly found them. Once they clashed on September 28th, the battle begun. The results ended with Colonel Makenzie victorious. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Fought near the Little Big Horn river in Montana territory, Sioux tribes and the American government had conflict. This was fought because the government kept pushing the Sioux tribes west while white settlers moved into their land. The 2 day battle (25th, 26th) is won by the Indians. -
Relocation of Nez Perce
Congress established the Nez Perce National Historic Trail in 1986. It stretches from Wallowa Lake, Oregon, across Idaho to the Bear Paw National Historic Trail in Chinook, Montana. As fur trappers, traders, settlers, soldiers, missionaries, and farmers moved into or through the area, 90% was reduced. The Indians tried to overtake the U.S. army but had to surrender near Bear Paw, Montana. -
Capture of Geronimo
Indians were going to surrender but they fled. That surrender should have ended the Apache war. Three months passed. Geronimo and those with him were worn out, hungry and shot up. Even so, they avoided capture. On september 3rd 1886 Geronimo surrended to the U.S. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On the morning of December 29, 1890, on Wounded Knee Creek near the Pine Ridge agency, the U.S. Army opened fire on the Sioux. When the shooting ended, the Sioux tribe and most of its people were dead or wounded. It has been estimated that nearly 300 of the original 350 men, women, and children were killed. Twenty-five soldiers were killed and thirty-nine wounded,
