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Sand Creek Massacre
John M. Chivington arrived at Sand Creek with around 700 troops. Chief Black Kettle, of the Cheyenne tribe, held up an American flag along with a white flag for peace. Chivington said killing them was the only way Colorado could have peace. Chivington open fired and killed about 150 people, many of which were women, children, and elders. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty
This treaty was made to move the Native Americans out of the way of expansion to the west. It also was used to help avoid conflict between settlers and the natives. Even though both the natives and the government signed the treaty, both disobeyed many of the rules. -
Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
This treaty moved the Sioux tribe onto a reservation near the Missouri River. It also promised the removal of military forts along the Bozeman Trail. It also guarenteed the Lakota the ownership of the Black Hills. -
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
This war ended with the confinement of the Plains Indians. Colonel Mckenzie was going to lead a suprise attack on the Native Americans. His troops couldn't find a stealthy way down so they just trudged their way down into the canyon. There they met and battled the Native Americans who ended up losing and fleeing. -
Battle of the LIttle Big Horn
2,000 Native Americans gathered near the Little Bighorn River for a ceremonial dance. Lieutenant Colonel Custer sent his troops in on a frontal assualt. They were quickly surrounded and all of Custer's men and himself were killed. -
Relocation of the Nez Perce
The Nez Perce were given a reservation in Idaho and Oregon. As miners and settlers began to move in the government took back nine tenths of the land of the reservation. In 1877 they were told to move completely to Idaho. Small fights broke out against the settlers and the Nez Perce which caused the U.S. army to pursue them. They made it 40 miles from the Canadian border and were caught and moved to Kansas. -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo, an Apache leader, left the life of living on a reservation along with many others. Geronimo led raids on the Arizona-Mexico border. Once captured in Septmeber of 1886 he was sent to an Apache internment camp in Florida as a prisoner of war. -
Ghost Dance movement begins
The beginning of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka. Wovoka had a vision. In his vision he saw the dwonfall of the white men and that all the land would be returned to the Native Americans. Newspapers saw the movement as an uprising and started to ask the U.S. government for help. THe government ordered the arrest of Sitting Bull who was later killed in a skrimish. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Colonel James Forsyth ordered the Sioux to give up there rifles. One named Black Coyote did not and he struggled with a soldier and the gun went off. Then a fight broke out between the soldiers and the Sioux. By the end about 300 men, women, and children had been killed.
