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Natives get guns and horses
Once the Spaniards from New Mexico brought the Natives horses and guns, the Native people were able to travel farther via horses and hunt for efficiently with the guns. By the time the mid-seventeen hundreds arrived, most tribes that were on the Great Plains left the farms and roamed the plains to hunt down buffalo. Buffalo was a major staple to the Native Americans. It was dried to be eaten as jerky, or mixed with berries and fat to make pemmican. This increased mobility led to skirmishes betwe -
Native Americans sign treaty with Confederacy
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Massacre at Sand Creek
During the fall of eighteen sixty four one of the most tragic events dealing with the American Indians and the Americans occurred. Most of the Cheyenne assumed that they were under protection by the United States government. So, they returned to Colorado's Sand Creek Reserve for the winter. Upon hearing about this, United States Army commander in the West, General S. R. Curtis, sent a telegram to colonel John Chivington saying, "I want no peace till the Indian's suffer more." With this in mind, -
Death on The Bozeman Trail
Warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman at the Lodge Trail Ridge after the Sioux chief, Red Cloud or Mahpiua Luta, was unsuccessful in appealing to the United States government to end the white settlement on the Bozeman Trail. Over eighty soldiers were killed in this skirmish. The Native Americans called the fight the Battle of the Hundred Slain, while the whites called it the Fetterman Massacre. Skirmishes like the Battle of the Hundred Slain continued until the government agr -
Massacre at Casa Grande
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Gold Rush
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Custer's Last Stand
The Sioux and the Cheyenne held a sun dance. At this sun dance Sitting Bull claimed to have a vision of some soldiers and some Native Americans falling off of their horses. When Colonel Custer and his troops finally reached the Little Bighorn River the Native Americans were ready and waiting for them. Led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the Native warriors crushed Colonel Custer's troops. However, this was not the end. In late eighteen seventy six the Sioux finally were beaten. Sitting Bull and -
Ghost Dance
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Destruction of Buffalo
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Battle of Wounded Knee
The Seventh Cavalry rounded up three hundred fifty suffering Sioux and brought them to a camp in South Dakota. The very next day, the soldiers demanded that Native Americans give them all of their weapons. At this, a shot was fired, however it is not clear from what side. None the less, the soldiers opened fire with a deadly cannon. After mere minutes of battle, the Seventh Cavalry killed nearly three hundred unarmed Native Americans. Children were included in the number slaughtered. The soldier
