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The federal goverment had passed an act that designated the entire Great plains as one enourmous reservtion, or land set aside for the Native americans.
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The govermetn changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.
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In response, Chivington and his troops and his troops decended on the Cheyenne and Arapho--about 200 warrions and 500 women and children--camped at Sand Creek. The attack at dawn on november 29, 1864 killed over 150 inhabitans, mostly women and children.
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The warrior Crazy horse ambushed Captain William Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. Native Americans called this fight the battle of teh hundred slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.
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Skirmishes continued until the goverment agreed to close Bozemon Trail. In return the Treaty of Fort Laramie in which the Sioux agreed to live in the reservation along the Missouri River was forced on the leaders of the sioux.
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The Red river war was brought on by six years of raiding, The U.S. Army responded by herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. General Phillip Sheridan. A union Army veteran, gave orders to destroy all villages and ponies, and to hang the warriors. -
Led By Craz Horse, Gal, and Sitting Bull the Warriors--with raised spears and rifles--outflanked and crushed Custer's troops. Within an hour, Custer and all of the men if the seventh calvary were dead.
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Congress Passed the Dawes Act aiming to Americanize the Natives. Tje act Broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to an individual Native Americans-- 160 acres to each head of the house hold and 80 acres to unmarried adults.
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The seventh Calvary--Custer's old regiment-- rounded up about 350 starving and freezing sioux and took them to camp at wounded knee creek in south dakota. The next day the soldiers demanded that the netive americans give up all there weapons. A shot was fires, from which side, it was not clear. The soldiers opened fir with deadly cannon. within minutes 300 natives were slaughtered, including children
