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WAR ON THE PLAINS

  • reservation

    reservation
    The federal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes.
  • changed policies

    changed policies
    The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.
  • MASSACRE At Sand creek

    MASSACRE At Sand creek
    Most of the Cheyenne assumed they were under the protection of the U.S Goverment.
  • Death on the Bozeman trail

    Death on the Bozeman trail
    The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge.
  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

    Treaty of Fort Laramie
    The Sioux agreed to live on a reveration along the Missouri River, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux.
  • General Custer

    General Custer
    General custer reported that the Black Hills had gold "frim the grass roots down," a gold rush was on.
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    Red River War

    Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War
  • Sitting Bull's vision

    Sitting Bull's vision
    The Sioux and the Cheyenne held a sun dance , during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    Dawes Act was made to "Americanize" the NAtive Americans. The act broke upthe reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native americans---160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government would sell the remainder of the reservations to the settlers.
  • Battle of Wounded knee

    Battle of 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. The next day, soldiers demanded that the Native Americansgive up all their weapons. A shot was fired; from which side, it was not clear.