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Goverment Act
The federal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation. -
Act of 1850's
The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. -
Massacre at Sand Creek
Indians returned to the Sand creek Reserve for the winter, they were attacked and over 150 were killed, mostly women and children. -
battle of the Hundred Slain
Crazy Horse ambushed Captian William Fetterman killing over 80 soldiers. Natives called it Battle of the Hundred Slain. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
this treated forced upon the leaders, the Souix agreed to live on the seservation along the Missouri River.Sitting Bull never signed. -
Gold Rush
Colonel George Custer reported that the Black Hills had old from the grass roots down. -
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Red River War
U.S. army gathered all the friendly tribes and killed all the enemy warrios and their ponies, burned their villages, and captured the women and children. -
Sun Dance
The souix and Cheyenne had a sun dance envisioning natives falling off their horses, Sitting Bull crushed Custers troops but the natives eventually lost. -
Dawes Act
Congress passed the Dawes Act, the act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans, 160 acres to each household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. -
Wounded Knee
the seventh cavalry rounded up around 350 starving freezing Sioux and took them to wounded knee in South Dakota. The next day the Natives were told to give up their weapons; a shot was fired, then soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon.
