War on the Plains

  • Great Plains Reservation Act

    Great Plains Reservation Act
    Faderal Goverment passes Act to establish whole great plains as one giant reservation.
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    Tribe boundaries

    Goverment gave native american tribes boundaries and definded them to one place.
  • Sand Creek Massacure

    Sand Creek Massacure
    John Chivington killed 150 people at Sand Creek
  • Fetterman Maasacure/ Battle of Hundred Slain

    Fetterman Maasacure/ Battle of Hundred Slain
    Crazy Horse ambushed Captin John William J. Fetterman and killed 80 soilders.
  • Ft. Laramie Treaty

    Ft. Laramie Treaty
    Ogala and Brule Sioux sign treaty to close Bozeman Trail
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    Red River War

    US army responds to attacks by comanche and crushed resistance
  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    Battle of Little Big Horn
    Custer Reaches Little Big Horn an are meet by Crazy Horse Sitting Bull and Gall Within an hour Custers troops were out flanked and all where killed.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    Congress passes dawes act and forces Native Americans into smaller reservations giving them little amounts of land. The Hous holds go 160 acres if married and 80 acres if alone.
  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee
    Custers Old regiment rounded up 350 freezing native americans and forsed them to give up weapons a shot was fired them soilders killed 300 unarmed native americans.