Indian Wars

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Indian Wars
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NA Chart Wars/Battles

1. Apache and Navajo Wars (1861-1886)
2. Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
3. Red River War (1874-1875)
4. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
5. Nez Percé War (1877)
6. Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

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Apache and Navajo Wars (1861-1886)

• Apache AZ, NM, and CO territories
• Navajo NM and CO territories

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Apache Wars

• Geronimo
• Colonel ChristopherKit Carson

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• Carson kills or relocates many Apache to
  reservations in 1862.
• Clashes drag on until Geronimo surrenders in
  1886.

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Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

• Sioux of the Northern Plains Dakota, WY, and MT
  territories (Black Hills Region)

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• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Lt. Col. George A.
• Custer

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• US Govt. tries to buy gold-rich Black Hills from
  Sioux.
• Talks fail and Custers 7th Calvary sent to round
  up the Sioux.
• Troops meet up with large number of Sioux.
• Custer and 200 men killed in Custers Last
  Stand.

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Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

• Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (Pine Ridge
  Reservation)

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• Sitting Bull
• US 7th Calvary

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• Ghost Dance raises fears of Sioux uprisings.
• Sitting Bull killed in an attempted arrest.
• His followers surrender and camp at Wounded Knee.
• Shots are fired some 200 300 Sioux die (women
  and children included).

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Dawes Act (1887)

• Forces Native Americans onto reservations and
  increases the process of their assimilation into
  the American culture
• Gives land directly to the individuals within a
  tribe