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Damon Denny period 5 10/27

1862. The Sioux agreed to move to a reservation and they would get annuities that would not reach them. When they were denied food they protested and killed hundreds of settlers 300 were sentenced to death and Lincoln reduced it to 38.

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in 1860 miners entering the territory in colorado searching for silver and gold causing tension with the cheyenne and arapaho who already lived there. by time summer arrived in 1864 dozens of homes were burned and a estimated amount of 200 settlers were killed . the governor persuaded the native americans to surrender at fort lyon he promised them food and protection. some natives surrendered many did not.. in november 1864 chief black kettle made a camp near sand creek , colonel john chivington of the colorado volunteers attacked black kettle's camp although the cheyenne were there to negotiate .

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in 1866 the us army was building forts along the bozeman trail. About 80 soldiers out to pursue what they thought was a small raiding party. Hundreds of waiting warriors wiped out the unit, an event that became known as fetterman's massacre, making the start of "red cloud's war." then in 1868 the army abandoned its posts along the trail.

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In 1867, an Indian Peace Commission was formed to make an ill-fated solution for the conflict. Two reservations were made, one for the Sioux, and one for the tribes in the southern plains. Because nobody could actually enforce it on either side, they quickly fell apart, and those who did move to reservations were oppressed.

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That Battle of Little Bighorn takes place on the Lakota Sioux within the Dakota territory and what is now Montana. The main cause of this battle was over gold within the Black Hills. The conflict between the prospectors and Native Americans was because the Native Americans were already on that land where the gold was rumored to be, this caused the Natives to be targeted and attacked but the natives had defended there territory from the attack lead by George A Custer.

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Flight of the Nez Perce-1877 (Mason Sevruk)

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Flight of the Nez Perce-1877 (Mason Sevruk)

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Summer 1877 brought tragedy to the Nez Perce (or, in their language, Nimiipu or Nee-Me-Poo). A band of 800 men, women, and children—plus almost 2,000 horses—left their homeland in what is now Oregon and Idaho pursued by the US Army. Settlers were moving into their homeland and the US Government was trying to force them onto a reservation. At Big Hole, Montana, many of their group, including women and children, were killed in a battle with the Army

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Tragedy at Wounded Knee, December 29 1890, Noa Peterson

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Tragedy at Wounded Knee, December 29 1890, Noa Peterson

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The Lakota wanted to perform a Ghost Dance but the government didn't want them to so they sent police to arrest the chief. The police ended up opening fire and killing the chief, and in the end 200 Lakota men, women, and children died.