Great plains

Conflict in the Great Plains Timeline

By hfxpalmer4

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Sand Creek Massacre
    The Native Americans didn't like any of the white settlers settling in the Rockies from the Gold & Silver Rush during the 1850's. So they began to attack wagons and mining camps. It was a battle between whites and Cheyenne. The Cheyenne won the battle.

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

    Treaty of Fort Laramie
    A treaty that the U.S. made with the Sioux in present day Wyoming @ Fort Laramie. Whites and Sioux were supposed to have peace, but it either didn't work or the peace didn't last long enough. It was meant for Sioux to live in the Black Hills of the Dakotas.

  • 1874 Discovery

    1874 Discovery
    The U.S. found gold in The Black Hills of the Dakotas, which was a reservation for Sioux and other Native American tribes. The Sioux didn't like any tresspassers, which were the U.S. Army and prospectors.

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn
    Custer went to attack Native Americans for glory. It was his army of about 250 against thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne soldiers. All of Custer's army, even him, were killed.

  • Fetterman Massacre

    Fetterman Massacre
    A group of Sioux, lead by Crazy Horse, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native Americans set an ambush on the U.S. in the Bozeman Trail. The U.S. was @ a fort near the trail. The Native Americans' ambush worked and killed about 80 U.S. soldiers. This was the bloodiest incident that happened during 1865-1867.

  • Ghost Dance

    Ghost Dance
    The Sioux performed a ritual known as the Ghost Dance, a ritual that was proclaimed that the ritual users would regain former and lost greatness if they performed it. Wovoka, a prophet tha tthe Sioux went to, told them to do the Ghost Dance. It is a way of the Sioux to show their culture that the U.S. was destroying. The reservation officials decided to ban the dance/ritual. They also decided to arrest Sitting Bull, but ended up killing him.

  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee
    Several hundred Sioux Indians fled from there leader, Sitting Bull, being shot on accident when the police went to arrest. The Army was collecting the Sioux's weapons when a pistol was shot. No one knew what happened, but the army responded by killing more than 200 sioux were killed, but they lost 25 soldiers in the last and final conplict between Native Americans and whites. The Native Americans gave up after this battle.