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Indigenous Peoples Conflicts

By Jenthewarrior

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Sand Creek Massacre
    After surrendering, 200 Cheyenne people were slaughtered.

  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek

    Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek
    Tried to force indigenous peoples to give up authority and move to federal land.

  • Buffalo War

    Buffalo War
    Indigenous peoples' last attempt to save the buffalo.

  • Buffalo War Ends

    Buffalo War Ends
    The War Ends.

  • Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn
    Sioux reservation ovverun after gold is discovered; they left reservation; Act signed to force them back to reservation.

  • A Century of Dishonor Published

    A Century of Dishonor Published
    Helen Hunt Jackson publishes book about indigenous peoples' suffering.

  • Geronimo Surrenders

    Geronimo Surrenders
    After two decades of conflict, Geronimo and his band of Apaches surrender.

  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    To break up reservations, they gave each indigenous person 160 acres of land.

  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Battle of Wounded Knee
    Ended conflict; 200 men, women, and children died.

  • Curtis Act

    Curtis Act
    Ending tribal authority, they mandated the allotment of land to indigenous peoples.