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Sand Creek Massacre
The United States Army came to the Sand Creek Reservation in Colorado. The U.S. Army killed about 150 elderly women and children of the Cheyenne Tribe. It was very devistating for the people of the Cheyenne Tribe near Colorado. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty
U.S. Indian Peace Organization signed three treaties at Medicine Lodge Creek near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. One treaty was made with the Kiowa and Comanche, a second confederated the Plains Apache with the Kiowa and Comanche, and a third was with the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. The United States promised the tribes peace and protection from white intruders in return for them to be relocated to reservations in western Indian Territory. -
Second Treaty of Ft. Laramie
It was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation, Yanktonai Sioux, Santee Sioux, and Arapaho signed the agreement in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and more land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The treaty also ended Red Cloud's war. -
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
It was one of the most significant battles of 1874-75 of the Native Americans many troops came from five directions and they contantly harrassed the Plains Indians on the Panhandle for over six months. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
It was a battle led by Souix chief Sitting Bull, they defeated a United States Army troop led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. -
Relocation of Nez Perce
Chief Joseph the leader of Nez Perce Tribe, stuggled to provide for his tribe including the way of life and their territory that was located in Wallowa Valley. In 1877, the government ordered the tribe to relocate to a reservation but Joseph agreed but, lated was forced to leave. -
Capture of Geronimo
Geronimo fled the reservation with others. Geronimo led raids on both sides of the Arizona-Mexican border for many years. He finally got captured, him and many others were sent to the Apache interment camp in Florida. -
Ghost Dance Movement Begins
In the late-nineteenth-century American Indians performed a spiritual movement, the ghost dance began in Nevada in 1889 when a Indian named Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson) and spoke of white people and the rebirth of the Native Americans. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The United States Army came to Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakoted they killed about 300 Souix Indians. It was very tragic for the Souix because they had lost so many members of their tribe.
