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Sand Creek Massacre
This battle was between the Chyenne tribe, joined by the Sioux, Kiowas, Comanches, and Arapahos tribes, and the americans. In the 1850's more and more white settlers were beginning to setle in Colorado. Violence was increasing between the settlers and the indians. The settlers decided to recruit a volunteer army to fight the indians. The army and the indians fought in the spring of 1864, but soon the indian leader,Black Kettle, surrender. -
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He believed that his tribe would be better off not fighting and moving to the Sand Creek area. Knowing that the indians were going to Sand Creek the leaer of the army, Chivington, led his troops there. Chivington didn't like indians and was out to get them. When the army showed up, Black Kettle raised an american flag and a white flag signaling a surrender, but the troops attacked. The battle was unnessacary and many indians were killed. -
Fetterman Massacre
This battle involed the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho indians. They have fought many battles, but the Fetterman Massacre was the worst. The Sioux military leader, Crazy Horse, lured army troops, manning the Bozeman Trail in Montana, into a trap. Crazy Horse tricked the military commander into sending 80 soliders to attack the indians. Little did the soliders know, but the indians were waiting to ambush the soliders. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Thsi battle was between the Sioux indians and a groop of men lead by General George A. Custer. The Sioux indians signed a treaty with the U.S. government saying that the Black Hills reservation was where they were going to live. In the Black Hills some gold was found and miners were moving in to get it. They wanted the U.S. to protect them on the Sioux's land. General George Custer and his men ran into a group of Sioux and Chyenne indians at the Little Bighorn River. -
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General George Custer's group got killed but the Sioux ened up losing the Black Hills reservation years later by the U.S. government. -
1874 Discovery
The discovery in 1874 was of gold. The Sioux indians owned the land, Black Hills in the Dakotas, where the gold was found. The white people wanted to get to the gold. The U.S. government wanted to buy the land off the Sioux but the Sioux cheif, Sitting Bull, would not sell the land. People swarmed the area for the gold and the indians did not like it. This lead to the Battle of Little Bighorn. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
By the Little Bighorn River in Montanta, General George Custer led the Seventh Cavalary of about 250 soliders to attack the indians. This attack was happening because the U.S. Army was ordered to move inidans to reservations. When the Seventh Calvary attacked they were shocked to find a Sioux and Cheyenne inidan force of thousands. All of the Seventh Calvary lost thier lives, including General Custer. The indians victory did not last because the army soon moved the indians to reservations. -
Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance came about when the Sioux moved to Wovoka. This dance was a way for the indians to express their culture. The Ghost Dance grew and as reservation officals found out, they wanted to ban the dance. Sice Sitting Bull was the cheif, the police believed that he was leading the dance. But when the police went to arrest Sitting Bull, he ended up getting shot. -
Wounded Knee
After the Lakota Sioux found out about Sitting Bull being killed, they ran to a creek called Wounded Knee in South Dakota. The inidans were scared for their lives. The army went to Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890 to collect the Sioux's weapons. When the soliders were there, a fight broke out killing more than 200 Sioux and 25 soliders.This battle was the end of fighting between the whites and the indians. The indians lost the conflict.
