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Reservation
The Federal Government passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation set aside for Native American tribes. -
Change of Policy
The U.S. government changed its polict and ctreayed treaties that defined specific boundaries for tribe. Most Native Americans spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional lands. -
Massacre at Sand Creek
Most of the Cheyenne assumed they were under the protection of the US Government. Yet, General S.R. Curtis sent a telegram to militia colonel John Chivington that read, " I want no peace till the Indians suffer more. After that, Chivington and his troops decended on the on the Cheyenne and Arapaho (about 200 warrors and 500 women) and killed over 150 people. Mostly women and children. -
Death on the Bozeman Trail
Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ride -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the auto Missouri River. -
Gold Rush
Miners begin searching the Black Hills, eventhough the Sioux, Cheyenne, and the Arapaho protested. The gold rush started when George A. Vuster reported that the Black Hills had gold "From the grass roots down" -
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Red River War
Late 1868. War broke out (again) between the Kiowa and Comache. This war lasted for six years and finally led to the Red River War of 1874-75 -
Custer's Last Stand
While performing a sun dance, the sioux and the Cheyenne had visions of soilders and Native Americans falling from their horses. When Custer attacks, they were ready, although the Sioux ended us getting beaten anyway. Although on the way, they killed Custer and all his seventh Calvary. -
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