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Sand Creek Massacure
The Sand Creek Massacure happend in Colorado. It was a conlifict between Indians and miners. The indians were outraged that people were using their land for gold and silver mining so they started attacking the miners. A volentary malitia was assembled and faught the indinas. The volintary malitia won and it hurt the tribes that were involved greatly. -
Fetterman Massacre
The bloodiest incedent out of a seiries staged attacks by the Sioux and other tribes. A Sioux military leader named crazy horse was used as a decoy to trick the commander of the fort of Bozeman Trail. Warriors were waitng for the detachment and wiped them out. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Treaty was signed at Fort Laramie and stated that the Black Hills of Dakota were sacred to the Sioux Indinas. -
1874 Discovery
The sacred Black Hil belonging to the Sioux Indians were rumored to have gold. General Custer led an army to check and eventually prove that the rumors were true. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
George Custer led soldiers to Little Bighorn River where they had to round up the warriors of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes and send them reservations. Custer, not knowing the strength of the warriors, led his army of of about 250 soldiers against a force of thousands. Custer and his army were all killed in the battle that shocked the nation. -
Ghost Dance
The Sioux used this ritual to express their culture. When reservation officials became alarmed as the ritual spread, they went out to arrest Sitting Bull, the Sioux cheif, who they belived that he was the movement leader. While trying to arrest Sitting Bull he was shot and died. -
Wounded Knee
After Sitting Bull's death several hundred Sioux Indians fled in fear to the river wounded knee in southwestern SD. An army went to collect the Sioux wepons when a pistol was fired, the army started to fire at the indians. More than 200 Sioux were killed and 25 souldiers faced the same fate. This marked the end of the fighting between the indians and the white men.
