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Beginning of Native American Wars
Complaints by Americans about miners from Mexico, Canada, Australia were taking gold that belonged to the people of the United States -
Passing of the Indian Appropriation Act
Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Act, creating the Indian reservation system where Native Americans were not allowed to leave their reservations without permission. -
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Battle of Little Bighorn
White settlers moved into the Great Plains region in a series of conflicts known as the Sioux Wars battling the Plains Indian tribes. The Sioux Indians led by Chief sitting bull pursuing the U.S. Army and leaving reservation open to hunt buffalo. -
The Cornstock Lode
The prospector in 1859 known as Henry Cornstock staked a claim for silver mining in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada causing Virginia City, Nevada to become a boom town. With this situation the boom town continued to the West. -
Native American attacks
A group of Apache Native Americans attacks and kidnaps a white American. This resulted in the U.S. military falsely accusing Native American leaders of the Apache tribe increasing raid on white American tribes. -
Culture of the Great Plains
Since white settlers kept expanding into the Indian lands the Dakota Sioux decided to launch an uprising. In response the U.S Army was sending troops to stop further up rise. -
Sandy Creek Massacre
Colorado volunteer forces attacked Cheyenne encampments along Sand Creek, killing more than 150 American Indians during what became known as the Sandy Creek Massacre. Sandy Creek Massacre a group of the U.S. Army who attacked Cheyenne for coming to accomplish the peace talk. -
Long Drives
In 1866, there was a long drive across the Great Plains to the railroads in Sedalia, Missouri to prove that cattle could be driven to the North to rail lines & 10 times as what was sold in Texas. -
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse took part in an attack on a small fort after General Sherman toured native lands to meet with some leaders to seek peace. Crazy Horse met Black Buffalo Woman. -
Crazy Horse
Some soldiers were pulled out of disputed forts and a treaty was signed that giving the native populations ownership of Black Hills . No whites was allowed to enter that territory under threat of arrest. -
General George Alexander Custer
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. The Sioux tried to steal their horses and failed. Custer’s troops came into the Black Hills to search for gold not following treaties while coming upon civilian miners who outnumbered the Native population. -
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Sitting Bull & The Fort Laramie Treaty
Gold was discovered in Black Hills, a place sacred to the Sioux and within boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. White settlers seeking their fortune rushed to claim the land for themselves. The U.S. government reneged on treaty, demanding that any Sioux who dare resist move to redrawn reservation lines or be considered an enemy of the United States. Sitting Bull was expected to move everyone in his village an impossible 240 miles in bitter cold. -
Death of Crazy Horse
Trying to prevent Crazy Horse from stabbing Little Big Man a soldier shoved a bayonet into Crazy Horse’s abdomen piercing his kidneys. Crazy Horse collapsed and then was moved to an office. Only his father was allowed to visit him. Crazy Horse died later that night on September 6, 1877 at 35 years old. Where Sioux took his body and buried it at an unknown location near a creek called Wounded Knee. -
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The country’s first off reservation boarding school. The school was created by veteran Richard Henry Pratt from the Civil war which was designed to assimilate Native American students. -
Signing of the Dawes Act
President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Act giving the president the ability to divide the land allotted to Native Americans in reservations to other individuals as well.
