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1st Treaty Of Fort Laramie
Allowed the US the right to build forts and roads and to travel across the Indian lands. The US recognized the Native Americans' claims to the Great Plains. Source: Powerpoint -
Fetterman Massacre
Indians in northern Wyoming lure Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his soldiers into a deadly ambush. The soldiers rode straight into the ambush and were wiped out in a massive attack during which some 40,000 arrows rained down on the hapless troopers. Source: www.history.com -
Long Walk of the Navajo Indians
The 300-plus-mile trek to a desolate internment camp along the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico called the Bosque Redondo Reservation. Many died of smallpox and hunger while walking. Source: www.crowcanyon.org -
2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie
The reason for the 2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie was so the Indians could claim there territory. The government promised to close the Bozeman trail and the forts along the trail so none of Americans would hurt the Indians. The common thing was that both scared of each and didn't know each other. Source www.ndstudies.gov -
Fetterman Massacre
I Indians in northern Wyoming lure Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his soldiers into a deadly ambush. The soldiers rode straight into the ambush and were wiped out in a massive attack during which some 40,000 arrows rained down on the hapless troopers. Source: www.history.com -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The two groups anger had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. Custer's Last Stand was when the Indians killed Custer at Little Bighorn. Source: www.history.com -
Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army
After the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and his people fled to Canada But returned after his people where starving and then surrenders. After he surrenders he was held as prisoner of war at Fort Randall in South Dakota. Source: www.history.com -
Publication of A Century of Dishonor
Helen Hunt Jackson reason make her book was to show how Native Americans were being treated. Then she sent a copy of her to the congress in effect was the Daws Act. Source: www.historycentral.com -
Sitting Bull performs In the Wild West Show
The Wild West Show was invented by Buffalo Bill Cody in 1883. It was a stereotype about the Indians And the Americans. Source: www.historyonthenet.com -
Dawes General Allotment Act
The reason of the Dawes Act was the distribution of Indian reservation land. The Indians who wanted the land were U.S. citizens to federal, state, and local laws. Source: www.britannica.com -
Beginning of the Ghost Dance Movement
One Paiute man named Wavoka started a religious movement called the Ghost Dance. The Indians thought that the dance was going to bring paradise and buffalo herds will return. Source: Power Point -
Sitting Bull's Death at Standing Rock Reservation
Sitting Bull was killed by the Indian police at the Standing Rock Reservation. Someone fired a shot that hit one of the Indian police then the shooting at Sitting Bull was in the chest and head. Source: www.history.com -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
US Army shot and killed about 150 Lakota Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek. The incident became known as the Massacre of Wounded Knee this was the end of Indians Wars. Source: Power Point