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the federeal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes
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govenment changed its policy and created treaties the defined specific boundaries for each tribe
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Chivington and his troops descended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho. About 200 warriors and 500 women and children camped at Sand Lake. Attach at dawn killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and childen
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The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. Native Americans called this fight the Battle of the Hundred Slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre.
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the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux. Sitting Bull leader of Hunkpapa Sioux, had never signed it.
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Colonel George A. Custer reported that the Black Hills had gold "from the grass roots down," a gold rush was on
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U.S. Army responded by herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. General Philip gave orders to destroy their villages and ponies, to kill and hang all warriors, and to bring back all women and children.
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Led by Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull, the warriors with raised spears and rifles outflanked and crushed Custer's troops. Within an hour, Custer and all of the men of the Seventh Cavalry were dead.
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Aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservation land to individual Native Americans 160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adults. The government would sell the remainer of the reservations to settlers , and the resulting income would be used by Native Americans to buy farm implements.
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Custer's old regiment rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to the camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. the nest day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. A shot was fired: from which side, it was not clear. the soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon.
