Plains TImeline

  • Act Passed

    The federal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormouse resorvation.
  • Changes

    The government chaanged its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.
  • Massecre at Sand Creek

    About 200 warriors 500 women and chldren camped at sand creek. 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children were killed.
  • Fetterman Massacre

    Over 80 soldiers were killed. The warrior crazy horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge
    Trail Ridge.
  • Sittting Bull

    Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, had never signed it
  • Red River Wars

    War broke out yet againas the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War of 1874-1875.
  • Little Big Horn

    the sioux were beaten. Sitting bull and a few followers took refuge in Canada, where they remained until 1881.
  • Dawes Act

    Congress past the Dawes Act aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans.
  • Wounded Knee

    The Seventh Cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.