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The federal government passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as a reservation for the Native Americans

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The government made treaties that set special boundaries for each tribe. The natives did not listen to the treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional lands which caused them conflict with settlers and miners.

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-Natives assumed they were protected by the government and returned to the Sand Creek Reserve
-General Curtis sent a telegram to colonel Chivington saying he wanted the Indians to suffer
-Chivington and his army went to the reservation and massacred tons of women and children

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1866-The Battle of the Hundred Slain/Fetterman Massacre

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1866-The Battle of the Hundred Slain/Fetterman Massacre

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-Crazy Horse ambushed captain Fetterman and his men at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed.
-Natives called it the Battle of the Hundred Slain and whites called it the Fetterman Massacre
-Fights continued until the government closed the Bozeman trail

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- it temporarily stopped warfare between the Natives and the settlers
-Sitting Bull did not sign it

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The Kiowa and Comanche acted in six years of raiding that led to the Red River War

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The American Army put the people of the friendly tribes on reservations and open fired on the other tribes

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1876-The Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer's Land Stand

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1876-The Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer's Land Stand

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-Crazy Horse, Gull, and Sitting Bull defeated Custer's troops. All were dead within an hour
-The Sioux were beaten by late 1876 and Sitting Bull and some others took refuge in Canada
- Sitting Bull was eventually forced to surrender to prevent people's starvation

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The government gave some reservation land to each individual Native American in an attempt to Americanize the Natives

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The buffalo were shot by fur traders and tourists for sport but what they did not realize is that they were destroying the Plains Indians' biggest resource for food, clothes, housing, tools, etc.

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-The seventh cavalry got 350 Sioux together and brought them to a camp at wounded knee
-Soldiers demanded the Natives to give up their weapons the next day
-A shot was fired the soldiers killed 300 unarmed Natives and left their bodies on the ground to freeze. This ended the era of Indian Wars.