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Placed Native Americans in reservations away from U.S states so they could be colonized. -
A congressional committee starts a study of the Indian uprisings and wars in the West. -
Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes is released. -
A conference was held at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, which resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. The treaty was made for peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
General George A. Custer leads an expedition into the Black Hills accompanied by miners who were seeking gold. -
Custer encounters the encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn River while leading his detachment. Custer's detachment is annihilated. -
Government confiscates Sioux land. -
Act authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. -
The act is signed by US President Grover Cleveland. -
A solar eclipse occurs in Wovoka, enabling a shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe to have a vision. The shaman claims that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka then creates the movement called the Ghost Dance. He prophesied the remaining Indian tribes of the West and Southwest reuniting and the cleansing of all evil from the world. -
Police officers who feared that Sitting Bull was going to flee the reservation with adherents of the Ghost Dance, so they shot and killed Sitting Bull. -
Doubled down on the Dawes Act, making tribal governments weak to the rule of US.