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The Government Restrics Native Americans
The federal government passed an act so that the entire Great Plains was one huge reservation land for Native Americans -
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Rections
The Gov. changed its polices and ended up creating treaties with Native Americans that made boundaries for certain tribes in certain places. Some tribes burned the treaties and and hunted on there traditional land. -
Death on The Bozeman Trail
The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company. Killing over 80 soldiers. The Bozeman trail ran right through Sioux hunting grounds. And the Sioux chief failed to appeal to the Government about ending the white settlement on the trail. After the massacre happened the government agreed to close the trail. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The treaty is about the Sioux agreeing to live on a reservation along the Missouri River and was forced on the leaders of the Sioux. The leader of Hunkpapa Sioux, Sitting Bull, never sighned the treaty. Late 1868, war broke out as the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding. -
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Red River War
U.S. Army was herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. Union Army veteran, General Philip Sheridan, gave orders to kill and hang all warriors,and to bring back all women and children. -
Gold Rush
4 years within the Treaty of Fort Laramie, miners began searching the Black Hills for gold. Colonel George A. Custer was the one to report that there was gold in the Black hills. -
Custer's Last Stand
During a sun dance preformed by the Sioux and Cheyenne, Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses. Little Bighorn River was where Custer and all of the men of the Seventh Cavalry were dead within a hour of getting there. The Sioux were beaten by late 1876. Sitting Bull and a few other followers took refuge in Canada, where they stayed until 1881. -
The Dawes Act
Congress passed this act aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans. It ended up breaking up reservations and gave some reservation land to certain Native Americans. -
Wounded Knee
The Seventh Cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Next day the soldiers demanded all weapons, but out of no where a shot was fired and soldiers opened fire and also had a deadly cannon. In minutes, the soldiers killed as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans. And they left the bodies there to freeze. -
Massacre At Sand Creek
The Cheyenne thought they were under the protection of the U.S government, but when they went to go camp for winter like they normally do General S. R. Curtis sent a telegram saying he wanted the Native Americans to suffer more. Troops were sent to the creek and killed over 150 Indians, mostly women and children.
