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1st Treaty of Fort Laramie
Allowed the US the right to build forts and roads and to travel across the Indian lands. Recognized the Black Hills as part of the Sioux territory and guaranteed access to hunting grounds.
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Long Walk of the Navajo Indians
- Navajo refused to move to the reservation
- Troops raided their fields, homes, and livestock until they started surrendering
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Fetterman Massacre
In 1866, Sioux warriors ambushed the command of William J. Fetterman, whose troops were trying to complete the construction of the Bozeman Trail in Montana. Of Fetterman's 81 soldiers and settlers, there was not a single survivor. http://www.ushistory.org/us/40a.asp -
2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie
In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, which resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
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Sitting Bull surrenders to U.S. Army and goes to Standing Rock Reservation
Sitting Bull and his people ran out of food and were starving. They returned and surrendered and eventually joined the rest of the Sioux at Standing Rock Reservation.
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Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer and his men tried to attack a combined Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne force without waiting for reinforcements at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He and his forces were surrounded and killed by Crazy Horse and his Sioux forces (Custer's last stand).
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Publication of A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
The book tells the story of seven of the principal tribes: The Delaware, the Cheyennes, the Ne Perces, the Sioux the Poncas the Winnebagoes and the Cherokees. The book uses US government reports showing how the Native Americans were treated poorly. She showed how the government did not honor any of its agreements. (https://www.historycentral.com/Indians/CentofDishonor.html) -
Sitting Bull Performs in Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Bill Cody created a Wild West show that toured the United States and Europe. Lakota Sioux chief Sitting Bull was part of the cast for four months in 1885. https://www.history.com/news/the-unlikely-alliance-between-buffalo-bill-and-sitting-bull -
Dawes Severalty/General Allotment Act
Each Native American family was offered 160 acres of tribal land to own outright. Although the land could not be sold for 25 years, these new land owners could farm it for profit like other farmers in the West. http://www.ushistory.org/us/40d.asp -
Sitting Bull's Death at Standing Rock Reservation
The Ghost Dance movement augmented the unrest already stirred among the Sioux by hunger and disease. As a precaution, Indian police and soldiers were sent to arrest the chief. Seized on Grand River, December 15, 1890, Sitting Bull was killed while his warriors were trying to rescue him.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
US Army shot and killed about 150 Lakota Sioux (children and women) near Wounded Knee Creek. This was the end of the Indian wars.
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Beginning of the Ghost Dance Movement
Wovoka received a message from the Creator that soon an Indian messiah would come and the world would be free of the white man. Wavoka and his followers meditated, had visions, chanted, and performed what became known as the Ghost Dance. http://www.ushistory.org/us/40e.asp
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-ghostdance/
