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On the Bozeman Trail, 80 men under Captian Fetterman killed by Cheyenne and Siox indians (us attacked)
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Fetterman Massacre 1866
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African american soldiers fight the indians in the west 9th and 10th unit
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Buffalo soldiers 1870 1880
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Leader of the Chiricahua Apaches- last resisting tribe. When us tried to move them to San Carlos reservation- leader ten year raid. after surrender moved to oklahomadied in 1909 at fort still ok 3 years after publishing his memiors
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Geronimo 1875- 1886
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George Custer 264 men killed in montana by 2500 sioux under leadership of crazy horse and sitting bull
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Battle of Litter Big Horn 1876
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Nez Perce forced to move from oregan territory to Idaho tried to lead several hundred people on a march to find refuge in canada. Defended the us at big hole river in montana, but were stopped a few miles from canada's border
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Chief Joseph and Nez Perce War 1877
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A century of dishonor- unjust manner in which the us gov treated the indians. indian made citizens in 1824
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Helen Hunt Jackson 1881
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Force american indians to assimilate into white cultureTribal lands to be divided among individual indiansfamily head got 160 acres, single adult or orphan received 80 acres and each dependent child 40 acres.- the indians still didnt farmindian children were sent to boarding schools land held by indians declined by more than half by 1900
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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