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Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, -
Navajo and Apache Wars
The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States and Apaches fought in the Southwest from 1849 to 1886. -
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War was conflict between the Native Indians against the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories from 1866 to 1868. The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in Wyoming. In 1863, European Americans had blazed the Bozeman Trail through the heart of the traditional territory of the Cheyenne and Lakota. -
Red River War
The Red River War was dealing with the US Army was sent to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne tribes from the Southern Plains and force them to reservations in Indian Territory. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Battle of Little Bighorn also known as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between the Northern Cheyenne against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle occurred on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. -
"A Century of Dishonor"--Helen Hunt Jackson
Jackson wrote this book in an attempt to change government policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act had begun to draw the attention of the public. -
Dawes Severalty Act
The Dawes Act adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
A scuffle over Black Coyote's rifle escalated and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry's opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow troopers. Those few Lakota warriors who still had weapons began shooting back at the attacking troopers, who quickly suppressed the Lakota fire.By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women and childerns died
