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Their were complaints by Americans about miners from Mexico, Canada, Australia were taking gold that belonged to the people of the United States
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Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Act, creating the Indian reservation system. Native Americans aren’t allowed to leave their reservations without permission.
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A group of Apache Native Americans attack and kidnap a white American, resulting in the U.S. military falsely accusing the Native American leader of the Chihuahua Apache tribe, Cochise. Cochise and the Apache increase raids on white Americans for a decade afterwards.
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650 Colorado volunteer forces attack Cheyenne and Arapaho encampments along Sand Creek, killing and mutilating more than 150 American Indians during what would become known as the Sandy Creek Massacre.
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Crazy Horse encounters General George Armstrong Custer for the first time. General Custer crossed into Sioux territory. Somewhere along the Yellowstone River Crazy Horse encountered Custer for the first time, coming close to the contingent of sleeping soldiers.
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Gold discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills drives U.S. troops to ignore a treaty and invade the territory.
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In the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” Lieutenant Colonel George Custer’s troops fight Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, along Little Bighorn River. Custer and his troops are defeated and killed, increasing tensions between Native Americans and white Americans.
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The first students attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, the country’s first off-reservation boarding school. The school, created by Civil War veteran Richard Henry Pratt, is designed to assimilate Native American students.
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President Grover Cleveland signs the Dawes Act, giving the president the authority to divide up land allotted to Native Americans in reservations to individuals.
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U.S. Armed Forces surround Ghost Dancers led by Chief Big Foot near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, demanding the surrender of their weapons. An estimated 150 Native Americans are killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre, along with 25 men with the U.S. cavalry.
