Point of Interest: In most textbooks, when whites wiped out Indians the engagement was usually a "battle"; when Indians wipe out whites it was a "massacre"
1874
General Custer finds gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota Immediately attacked by the Sioux whose land wasprotected by a treaty with the whites
Congress passes the Dawes Severalty Act, imposing a system of private land ownership on Native American tribes for whom communal land ownership has been a centuries-old tradition. Individual Indians become eligible to receive land allotments of up to 160 acres, together with full U.S. citizenship
Wounded Knee Creek and Ghost Dance Movement – Indian Resistance and Hostility
This freaks out white people. Remember early slave revolts?
Federal troops massacre the Lakota Chief Big Foot and his 350 followers at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in a confrontation fueled by the government’s determination to stop the spread of the Ghost Danceamong the tribes. The incident stands in U.S. military history as the last armed engagement of the Indian Wars.
Sitting Bull's half-brother, Big Foot, and some 200 Sioux were killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry. only fourteen days before,Sitting Bull had been killed with his son Crow Foot at Standing Rock Agency in a gun battle with a group of Indian police that had been sent by the American government to arrest him
November 29, 1864
Sand Creek Massacre
Militiamen kill at least 160 CheyenneIndians at Sand Creek, Colorado.
December 21, 1866
Fetterman Massacre
Fought near Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, Sioux and Cheyenne ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and 80 men, killing every one of them.
June 25-26, 1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated the 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer.
1890–1891
Ghost Dance War
An armed conflict between the U.S. government and Native Americans that resulted from a religious movement called theGhost Dance. The conflict included the Wounded Knee Massacre and the Pine Ridge Campaign.
Sitting Bull's half-brother, Big Foot, and some 200 Sioux were killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry. only fourteen days before,Sitting Bull had been killed with his son Crow Foot at Standing Rock Agency in a gun battle with a group of Indian police that had been sent by the American government to arrest him.
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