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Sand Creek Massacre.
In Colorado while, the Gold and Silver rush took place, the soldiers and miners were invading the territory of the Indians. It angered the Araphaho and Cheyenne Indians until they basically couldn't take it anymore. They began attacking solders which led up to the Colorado war in 1864. After the Indians surrendered, we basically defeated them. -
Fetterman Massacre.
The Fetterman Massacre occurred December 21, 1866 in Wyoming and was the bloodiest incident. Army troops were on the Bozeman Trail manning a fort used by prospectors to reach the gold mines in Montana. However, there were Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. One of the Sioux leaders lured the troops to try and trap them. They tricked the fort’s commander into sending about 80 soldiers. Along the way, hundreds of warriors were waiting to wipe them out. The indians came out to be the winners. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
In Wyoming at Fort Laramie, the U.S. government and Native Americans set out to find a resolution to all this fighting and conflict in the recent years. The treaty was designed to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux, who agreed to settle in the Black Hills Reservation in the Dakota Territory. This land was sacred to the Sioux but miners seeking for gold on an expedition found gold in the Black Hills. The army moved against wandering Sioux. The govt. eventually just confiscated the land. -
1874 Discovery.
In 1874, Prospectors filled the area after George Custer led an expedition. There was word that gold was found in The Black Hills.The government waned to buy the land, but Leader of the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull, refused. He did not want to sell the sacred land. -
Battle of Little Bighorn.
A treaty of 1868 was a treaty that was suppposed to bring peace, but that didn't happen. A conflict between the whites and Sioux and Cheyenne indians took place in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. The Sioux protested against trespassers, but then the govt. tried to buy the hills and try to move them to reservations. But instead, they attacked. They ended up sending most to reservations, while some agreed to. -
Ghost Dance.
The Dawes Act changed the Native Americans' way and made their culteral traditions weaker. They were desparate, so they turned to a prophet named Wovoka. He told them that if they did the Ghost Dance, or a ritual, they would return to their greatness. But when the ritual spread, they wanted to ban the dance. After the chief, Sitting Bull, died after being shot, they gathered at a creek named Wounded Knee. -
Wounded Knee.
Wounded Knee is a creek in Southwestern South Dakota. The army gathered to collect the Sioux's weapons. But when one shot was fired, there was sort of an uproar and more than 200 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed. This was the end of the conflict with the whites and Native Americans. The Native Americans lost.
