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The Federal Government designated the entire great plains as one enormous reservation.
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The government changed its policy and designated specific boundaries for each tribe.
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Militia Colonel John Chivington attacked the natives at the Sand Creek Reserve in Colorado and killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children.
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Warrior Crazy Horse attacked captain William J. Fetterman and company, and killed over 80 soldiers.
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The Sioux agreedto live on a reservation along the Missouri river, which was forced on the leaders of Sioux
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The Gold Rush had started in the Black Hills
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General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army Veteran gave orders "to destroy their villages and ponies, to kill and hang all warriors, and bring back all women and children" With such tactics, the army crushed resistance on the Southern Plains.
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The Battle of Little Big Horn. Custers took down the Sioux and some Native Amerian Sioux leaders went to Canada for refuge
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This Act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans
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