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Goverment Restricts Native Americans
The federal goverment had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plans as one enormous reservatio, or land set aside for Native Americans. -
Goverment changes its policy
The Goverment changes its policy and creates treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe. -
Massacre At Sand Creek
General S.R. Curtis, U.S. Army Comander in the West, sent a telagram to militia colonel John Chivington that read, "I want no peace till the indians sufer more." In response, Chivington and his troops decended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho - about 200 warriors and 500 women and children camped at Sand Creek. The attack killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly wommen and children. -
Death Of The Bozeman Trail
The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. Native Americans called the fight the Battel of the Hundred Slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre. -
Treaty of Fort Laramine
The Treaty of Fort Laramie, in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux. -
Gold Rush
Colonel George A. Custer reported that the Black Hills had gold "from the grass roots down," there then was the stat of a gold rush. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, another Sioux chief, vainly appeled again to goverment officials in Washington. -
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Red River War
The U.S. Army hearded the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. General Philip Sheridan, a Union veteran, gave orders "to destroy theier and ponies, to kill and hang all warriors, and to bring back all women and children." With such tactics, the army crushed resistance on the southern plains. -
Custers Last Stand
Led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and Gall, the warriors with raised spears and rifles outflanked and crushed Custer's troops. Within an hour, Custer and all of the men of the seventh cavalery were dead. Sitting Bull and a few followers took refuge in Canada, were they reamined until 1881. -
The Dawes Act
Congress passed the daws act aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans. the act broke up the reservation and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Anericans-160 acers to each head of household and 80 avers to each unmarried adult. The Goverment would sell the remainder of the reservation to settelers, and the resulting income would be used by Native Americans to buy farm implements. -
Wounded Knee
The Seventh Cavalry-Custers old regiment-rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up their weapons. A shot was fired; from which side it was not clear. the soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon. Within minutes, the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unharmed Native Americans, including several children. This brought the Indians wars to an end.
