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Great Plains Reservation
Federal government passes an act that designates the entire great plains as one enormous reservation -
Reservation change
Government changes policy about reservations and creates treaties that define specific boundaries for each tribe. -
Massacre at Sand Creek
Cheyenne Indians enter Colorado's Sand Creek Reserve, assuming the are under government protection. the are then attcked by U.S. militia and over 150 people, mostly women and children. -
Crazy Horse Attacks
After Chief Red Cloud appealed to the government to end white settlement on the bozeman trail, Crazy Horse and his men ambush Captain Fetterman at the Lodge Trail Ridge, killing over 80 soldiers. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
After the Fetterman Massacre and smaller skirmishes the government closes the bozeman trail, in return, the sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the missouri river -
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Red River War
Six year war between the Kiowa and Comanche leads to government leading friendly tribes onto reservations, while opening fire on all others. -
Custers Last Stand
Sioux and Cheyenne hold a sun dance, when they have visions of soldiers and some native americans falling from their horses. When Custer arrives, the natives are ready. Lead by Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting bull, the indians kill all the men in the 7th cavalry. -
The Dawes Act
Congress passes the Dawes Act, aiming to Americanize the native americans, this act broke up reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Indians, 160 acres to each head of house, and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government will sell the remainder to white settlers
