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1834
Reservations federal government passes an act that designated the entire Great Plains as on enormous reservation. -
1850
the government changed its policy and created the treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. -
sand creek massacre
general S.R. Curtis, us army commander in the west sent a telegram militia colonel John chivington that read "i want no peace till the Indians suffer more. 200 worriers and 500 women and children camped at sand creek. attack happened at dawn on November 29 1864 killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children -
fetterman massacre
in December 1866 Crazy horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at lodge trail Ridge. over 80 solders were killed -
dodge laramie
in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation. along the Missouri river, was forced on the leader of the Sioux in 1868 -
red river war.
in late 1868, war broke out yet again again the kiowa and camache engaged in 6 years of raiding that finally lead to the red river war in 1874-1875. -
the last stand of goldy locks
The Sioux and Cheyenne held a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses. When Colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the Native Americans were ready. Led by Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull, the warriors--with raised spears and rifles--outflanked and crushed Custer's troops, and within an hour all of his men and Custer were dead. -
1887
congress passed the Dawes act aiming to Americanize native Americans -
battle of wounded knee
the seventh calvery custers old regiment- rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at wounded knee creek in south Dakota. the next day they demanded that the natives give up all there weapons. i shot was fired by accident and the us calvery slaughtered all of the natives.
