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1834: Passed act to set land aside for Native American tribes

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1834: Passed act to set land aside for Native American tribes

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This act designated the entire Great Plains as a reservation for them.

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- The government had changed it's policy
- These policies defined boundaries for each tribe
- The Natives did not take this well, and still decided to hunt on their traditional lands, which caused trouble between the settlers and miners.

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- The Cheyenne tribe returned to the Colorado Sand Creek reserve thinking they were protected by the U.S. government.
- General S. R. Curtis sent a telegram that said he wanted the Indians to greatly suffer
- Chivington and his troops arrived at Cheyenne and Arapaho and killed over 150 people, mainly women and children.

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1866: Battle of Hundred Slain/Fetterman Massacre

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1866: Battle of Hundred Slain/Fetterman Massacre

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- The Bozeman trail ran directly through the Sioux hunting grounds.
- The Sioux chief (Red Cloud) unsuccessfully appealed to the government to end white settlement on the trail.
- In December, the Crazy Horse warrior ambushed captain Fetterman and  his company.
- 80 soldiers were killed, while the Natives called it the Hundred Slain, and the Whites called it the Fetterman massacre.
- These battles continued until the government agreed to close the Bozeman trail.

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- The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri river. This was forced onto them. Sitting Bull, the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, did not sign it.

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- Six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War.

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- They herded the friendly tribes onto reservations and opened fire on all the other ones

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1876: The Battle of  Little Big Horn/ Custer's Last Stand

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1876: The Battle of  Little Big Horn/ Custer's Last Stand

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- The Sioux and Cheyenne were holding a sun dance.
- The Native Americans  were ready for Colonel Custer and his troops when they arrived.
- Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull crushed Custers troops.
- All of the men of the seventh cavalry were dead.

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- Broke up reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans.
- By 1932, whites had taken 2/3 of the territory that had been set aside for Native Americans.
- This aimed to "Americanize" Native Americans

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- Tourists and fur-traders shot buffalo for sport.
- U.S. General Sheridan decided that hunters were destroying the Plain Indian's main source of food, clothing, and shelter.

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- The Seventh Cavalry rounded up 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee camp.
- They also demanded they give up all their weapons.
- There was a shot fired, but they could not see who did it, so the soldiers opened  fire with deadly cannon.
- Within minutes, the Seventh cavalry slaughtered near 300 Indians, mainly unarmed, and some children.