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Plain wars (Massacre at Sand Creek (November 29 - 1864, Most of the…
Plain wars
Massacre at Sand Creek
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General SR Curtis sent a telegram to militia colonel John Chivington that read, "I want no peace until the Indians suffer more."
Chivington attacked Sand Creek at dawn killing over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children.
Fetterman massacre
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The Sioux chief, Red Cloud, had unsuccessfully appealed to the government to end white settlement on the trail.
The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed.
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Little Big Horn
The Sioux and Cheyenne tribes had a sun dance, during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses.
When Custer and his troops arrived at Little Bighorn River, the Native Americans were ready for them. Led by Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull the warriors outflanked and crushed Custer's troops.
Within the hour Custer and his men were dead. Soon the Sioux were defeated anyways, and Sitting Bull surrendered.
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Battle of wounded knee
The Seventh Cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek.
The next day, the soldiers demanded that the native Americans give up all their weapons.
The soldiers open fired with deadly cannon. Within minutes, as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans were slaughtered.
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Little crows war
Dakota Sioux were in a desperate situation and were unable to buy or grow food and they began to starve - the reservation agent refused to hand over any food.
On the 17 August 1862 four Sioux men killed five white settlers. The following day, Little Crow launched an attack on the Indian Agency believing that they would be too preoccupied by the civil war to fight back.
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The US government responded by sending in huge army reinforcements. By September, Little Crow realised his tribe could not defeat the US army and the Dakota Sioux surrendered.
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