Specific areas set aside by the federal government for the Indians use.
Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops fought them and brought the Nez Perce back to reservations.
Sioux war chief and trained as a holy man
Reservation
Dawes General Allotment Act
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle in 1876 where General George Custer and his 7th Calvary were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
Assimilate
Adjusting, adapting, conforming to a group, nation or culture.
became the first-ever chief of all seven bands of the Lakota Sioux.
Leader of Nez Perce.
Wounded Knee
Sitting Bull
Attack in 1864 by Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington on Cheyenne & Arapaho Indians that were under the protection of the U.S. Army. The attack killed about 150 Cheyenne elderly, women, and children at Sandcreek Reservation in Colorado.
In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up fleeing Sioux and took them to Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, soldiers demanded the Native Americans give up their weapons. A shot was fired and the soldiers opened fire, 100 Native men women and children were murdered.
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment, each Indian family was granted a 160-acre farmstead. To protect the Indians they were not allowed to sell or transfer the land for 25 years.
Chief Joseph
Battle of Little Big Horn
