War in the West

By katelynnrae34

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs

    Government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues. Commander Luke Lea declared American Indians should "be placed in positions where they can be controlled, and finally compelled"

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

    Guaranted American Indians land rights on the Great Plains

  • Fort Laramie Treaty

    American Indians agree to the construction od roads and forts on their land

  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge

    Southern Plains Indians agree to move to Indian Territory

  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge

    The Sioux agree to move to a reservation in the Black Hills

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 600+ members of U.S Army 7th Calvary rode into an American Indian Camp, Custer ordered and immediate attack. They attack from 3 sides, battalion of 200+ men were led into the camp. The battle ws described as "we circled around like water around a stone. we shoot. we rode. we shoot again. Soldiers drop, horses fall on them." The battle lasted less than and hour with Custer and every soldier in his battalion lay dead.

  • Sarah Winnemucca

    A Paiute reformer (Thoc-me-tony), called attention to the problems of Americans Indians. the forced removal of the Paiute to the Yakima Reservation in Washington Territory outraged her that she began lecturing on the Paiute's behalf to non-indian audiences. In 1880 she asked President Hayes to allow the Pauite to return to their homeland. Hayes agreed, but the BIA's agents did not.

  • Dawes General Allotment Act

    Passed by Congress. Required that Indian lands be surveyed and that Amrican Indian families recieve an allotment of 160 acres of reservation land for farming, any remaining land would be sold.

  • Wounded Knee Masacre

    Colonel James Forsyth ordered the siezure of Indian rifles. It was reinforced by four Hotchkiss guns that fired exploding shells, some 500+ mounted soldiers surrounded the camp. The Sioux surrendered, but the Sioux and U.S Soldiers shot, 150 sioux and 30 U.S were killed. The incident marked the end of the bloody conflict between soldiers and American Indians.