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Federal Government
The federal Government had passed an act the designed the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes. -
Government changed policy
The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundariesfor each tribe. Native Americans spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional lands. -
Sand Creek
Chiveington and his troops descended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho about 200 warriors and 500 women and children camped at Sand Creek. The attack at dawn killed over 150 inhabutants, mostly women and children. -
Crazy Horse
Warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. -
Laramie Treaty
Skirmishes contined until the government agreed to close the Bozeman Trail. In return thet Treaty of Fort Laramie which the Sioux agreed to live in a reservation along the Missouri River was forced on the leaders of the Sioux.Sitting Bull never had signed. -
Red River War
War broke out yet again as the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in sex years of raiding that finally led to the Red War. U.S. army responded by herdind the people of friendly tribes onton reservations while opeing fire on all other. General Philip gave orders to destroy their village 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. -
Custer
Led by Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull the warriors with raised spears and rifles outflanked and crushed Custer's troops. Within and hour Custer and all of the men of the Seventh Cavalry were dead. By late year the Sioux were beaten. Sitting bull and a few followers took refuge in Canada where they remained, -
Dawes Act
congress Passed the Dawes Act aiming to Americanize the Native Americans. The act broke up the reservation and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Amerixans 160 acres to each head household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government would sell the reminder of the reservations to settlers, and the resulting income would be used by Native Amerixans to buy farm implements. -
Wounded Knee
The Seventh Cavlry Custer's old regiment rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a cmap at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. Within minutes the Seventh Calvry slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans including several children.
