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The Government Restricts the Native Americans
The federal government had passed an reservantion or land set aside for Native American tribes -
change in treaty
made the reservations -
Massacre at sand creek
the Cheyenne moved to sand creek for the winter and the military came in and killed most of them. over 150 inhabitants mostly women adn children were killed. -
Battle of the Hundred Slain
Red Cloud unsuccessfully appealed to the government toe end white settement on the trail. warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captin William J. Fetterman and his company of soldiers. 80 soldiers dided. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
this is an aggrement were the Sioux agreed to live on a resavation -
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Red River War
the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finaly led to the Red River War of 1874-1875. The US army responded by putting the friendly tribes on reservations and opening fire on the hostile ones -
Custers last stand
early June the sioux adn Cheyenne held a sun dance during wich Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses, When Colonel Custer and his troops reached little Bighorn the native americans were ready for him. Led by Crazy Horse Gall and Sittingbull the warriors with raised spears adn rifles out flanked adn crushed custer's troops. -
Daws act
aiming to Americanize the native americans. the act broke up the reservations and gave soem 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 reservatios to settlers, and the resulting income would be used by Native Americans to buy farm implements. By 1932 whites had taken about 2/3s of the territory that had been set aside for native americans. -
Wounded Knee
the 17th cavalry- Custers old regiment rounded up 350 starving and freezing sioux adn took them to a camp at Wounded knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, the soliders demanded that the Native Americans give all their weapons. a Shot was fired from which side is not clear. the soilders open fired with deadly cannon. with in minuits the 17th calvery slaughtered as many as 300mostly unarmed native americans including several chnilderen.
