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Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre took place on Novermber 29, 1864. This event happened in Colorado when the gold and silver rush then whites setteled in the foothills. It was siad that the Cheyenne Indians had won, but this went to conflict. This lead to the Colorado War with the Cheyenne, Arapahos, and later the Sioux indians against Evans and Chivington militia. The Native Americans surrendered at Sand Creek, but Chivington attacked any way. Chivington killed anyone from kids to pregnant women, -
Fetterman Massacre
The Fetterman Massacre happened on December 21, 1866. This event army troops were in Boseman Rail, used by prospectors to reach gold mines in Montana. The Sioux military leader set up a a deadly trap and wiped out the entire detachment. Bands of Chayenne, Arapaho, and the Sioux indians awaited for this ambush. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was astablished in Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming. This treaty was to bring piece between the Sioux Indians and the whites and the Sioux agreed to have a reservation in the Black Hills. The miners later found gold in tlhe Black Hills which disturbed their hunting grounds. This caused the United States and the Indians to fight for Black Hill in a dispute of who owned the reservation. -
1874 Discovery
The 1874 Dicovery was in 1874. General Custer lead the army to the Black Hills because they heard there was gold. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
The Battle of Little Big Horn happened on June 25 1876 in the Black Hills of present day Montana. The Black Hills were set to the Dakotas. The government said that no white person can go on the hills at all. But in 1874 General Custer lead the amry to check if there was any gold in the Black hills. The government even tried to buy the land from them, but the Sioux refused. The government attacked the indians and crushed the uprising and then the Indians agreed to live on the reservation. -
Ghost Dance
In 1890 the Sioux went to the Wovoka and asked for a way to drive the whites from their land. The Wovoka told them to perform a ritual called the Ghost Dance. They did the dance to express their culture they had lost. The reservation did not like this dance and banned it. The police even arrested and killed the Sioux's chief, Sitting Bull. -
Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee was a creek in southwestern South Dakota. The Sioux Indians went to Wounded Knee because they were in fear from Sitting Bull's death. On December 29, 1890 the army went to Wounded Knee and a fight started. Wounded Knee marked the end of armed conflict between the whites and the indians. The indians had lost their long fight of a struggle.
