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Federal Government passes an act that designated the entirety of the Great Plains as a reservation for the Native Americans.

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American Gov. decided to change its mind and created treaties that designated certain spots of the great plains as reservations, but most natives stayed on their land anyways and hunted where they wanted to.

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Sand Creek Massacre
-General S.R. Curtis sent telegram to make the Natives suffer
-American Militia attacked at dawn November 29, 1864
-150 natives killed, mostly women and children

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The Battle of Hundred Slain
Red Cloud, chief of the natives, unsuccessfully appealed to the whites. Crazy Horse, a warrior, ambushed the whites and killed 80 men, calling it the hundred slain. The whites called this battle the Fetterman Massacre.

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Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Mississippi river, Sitting Bull, one leader, never signed it

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The Kiowa and the Comanche were raiding the white villages and towns for six years before the war started

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The Americans herded all of the friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all of the other tribes.

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Battle of Little Bighorn
The Natives chief had a vision of the Americans falling and met them out on the battlefield, outflanked them and beat them. But by late 1876, there were no more natives to spare to fight. The natives had to surrender.

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Dawes Act
The Act was put into place to try and "americanize" the natives, by giving them land and selling the rest to whites and giving the profit to the natives. Did not work, natives never actually got the money.

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Buffalo Killed Off
The natives surrounded their entire lives around the Buffalo in the great plains. They used then for food, shelter, fuel, and clothing. By 1890, one thousand of the 65 million remained. This was a huge blow to the natives because they knew nothing else to live off of.

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Massacre at Wounded Knee
#50 natives were rounded up by the Seventh Cavalry of the US and brought to wounded creek in South Dakota. They were told to drop all of their weapons, An unknown shot was let off and the seventh cavalry killed 300 unarmed natives, including children. This brought the war to an end.