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Federal Government makes a act that makes the Plains one big Reservation, or set aside for Native American tribes.
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The government changes its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe .
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The Cheyenne assumed they were under the protection of US Government and had returned to Colorado Sand Creek Reserve for the winter. General S. R., US Army commander in the West, sent a telegram saying that he will not have peace with the Native Americans until they suffered more than what they already had. Chivington, who had received the telegram, descended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho- with about 200 warriors and 500 women and children- they camped at Sand Creek, over 150 killed.
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Warrior Crazy horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge, over 80 killed. Native Americans called this fight the Battle of the Hundred Slain, whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.
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Government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail, in return the Treaty of Fort Laramie was created. In which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
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Colonel George A. Custer reported gold in the Black Hills, this created a Gold Rush. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, and a another Sioux chief vainly appealed again to government officials.
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Sioux and Cheyenne help a sun dance, during Sitting Bull, they had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses. Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull all outflanked and crushed Custer's troops.
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Aiming to 'Americanize' the Native Americans. This act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native American.
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The Seventh Cavalry, Custer's old regiment, rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all weapons, someone shot a fire and soon the soldiers opened fire with deadly cannons.
