The Native Americans didn't believe in owning land whilst settlers thought land ownership gave them a stake in the country.
Settlers claimed Natives didn't have rights to land because they hadn't settled in it.
Miners began to invade their land in their search for gold.
Major Battles
Massacre at Sand Creek
Battle of the Hundred Slain
Red River War
Custer's Last Stand
The Battle of Wounded Knee
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
Passed in 1887 and tried to force natives to change to their culture.
Gave reservation land back to natives but whites inevitably gained two-thirds of the land and natives made no money.
Massacre at Sand Creek
One of the most tragic events which occurred on November 29th, 1864.
Natives thought they were under the protection of the U.S. government- yet the militia was ordered to attack and 150 women and children died.
Trail Of Tears
The culture clash and the restrictions on natives has been going on for some time- the Trail of Tears in 1830 shows this.
Battle of the Hundred Slain
Called Fetterman Massacre by the whites.
Sioux chief tried to end white settlement on the Bozeman trail and was unsuccessful- skirmishes continued until the Sioux agreed to move to a reservation.
This was called the Treaty of Fort Laramie
Have A Buffalo
After 1996
Red River War
Fighting between Kiowa and Comanche tribes lead to U.S. Army herding friendly tribes to reservations.
Destroyed villages and killed warriors and ponies. They were ordered to bring all women and children back. Crushed all resistance on Southern Plains.
Custer's Last Stand
June 1876, Cheyenne and Sioux tribes held a sun dance.
Sitting Bull anticipated the arrival of Custer and his troops and was prepared to fight them.
Custer and the Seventh Cavalry died but Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada.
The Battle of Wounded Knee
Happened on December 28th, 1890
7th Cavalry gathered Indians that were freezing and starving and took their weapons, then opened fire, killing 300 natives- including children.
Ended the wars
Land Acts
White settlers were moving towards the Plains in search of land and a new way of life.
Government passed different acts to try and solve the land dispute.
Offered cheap land to farmers causing an influx of settlers and attracting more than 400,000 people in less than forty years.
Before
Sitting Bull
Facts
The Nez Perce Indians lived in the Northwest area- where we live.
Buffalo population went from 65,000,000 in 1800 to 1,000 in 1870.