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Settlers Started to move westward.
This influenced and act that was passed by the federal government that designated an enormous reservation set aside for Native American tribes. -
Government changes its policy and creates treaties
Instead of restricting the tribes they defined specific boundaries for the each tribe. Native Americans ignored the treaties and continued to hunt on their original hunting grounds. -
Massacre at Sand Creek
General S. R. Curtis, U.S. Army cammander sent a telegram to John Chivington that said, "I want no peace till the Indians suffer more." So Chivington took his troops to the Cheyenne and Arapaho land, along with 200 warriors and 500 women and children, and camped at sand creek. They attacked at dawn and killed over 150 Inhabitants. -
Battle of the Hundred Slain/ Fetterman Massacre
Warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. over 80 soliders were killed. I put Battle of the Hundred Slain/ Fetterman Massacre because the Navtive Americans called it the Battle of the Hundred Slain and the whites called it the Fetterman Massacre. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sioux agreed to live on the reservation along the Mississippi River. -
Red River War
LATE 1868 Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that led to the Red River War of 1874-1875. the U.S. government move friendly tribes onto reservations and opened fire on all others. General Philip Sheridan gave orders "to destroy their villages and ponies, to kill and hang all warriors, and to bring back all women and children -
Gold Rush
Colonel George A. Custer reported that Black Hills had gold "from the grass roots down," a gold rush started. -
The Dawes Act
It's purpose was to Americanize the Native Ameircans, which broke up reservations The government gave 160 acres to each family and 80 acres to every unmarried adult. -
Battle of Wounded knee
Colonel Custer got 350 starving and freezing Native Americans from Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek. the nest day the the soliders made the Native Americans give up all weapons. Then a shot was fired and within minutes the soliders slaughtered at least 300 Native Americans,
