Conflict on the Great Plains

Homestead Act

Oct 6, 1862

It was passed in 1862 by congress and it gave 160 acres of land to settlers who payed a filing fee and live on the land for five years.

Fetterman massacre

Dec 21, 1866

When crazy hourse acted as a decoy and lured 80 troops into an ambush with hundreds of warriors where they wiped them out.

Battle of little bighorn

Oct 14, 1868

This was supposed to bring peace, but tensions reamined and erupted in more fighting a few years later.

1874 Discovery

Oct 13, 1874

This was the confliclt about the black hills which is the hills where no white person or persons are permitted to occupy or even pass thought.

Treaty of fort laramie

Dec 26, 1876

the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation.

Ghost Dance

Oct 14, 1890

The ghost dance was the way for the sioux to express their culture that was being destroyed.

Wounded knee

Dec 29, 1890

At the Wounded knee creek the U.S. army collected the sioux weapons. Over 200 sioux were killed and 25 soldiers.