1. Railroads and Expansion: Impact on Native Americans

2. Battle of Little Bighorn
In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, most Sioux agreed to live on a reservation
Sitting Bull never signed the treaty

3. Little Bighorn
In 1876, he defeated army troops led by General Custer at the Little Bighorn River.
The Sioux killed Custer and all of his soldiers, however the army recovered and within six months defeated the Sioux.

4. Wounded Knee
By 1900, white settlers had killed nearly all the buffalo on the Great Plains, which the Native Americans depended on for survival.

5. The Sioux adopted a ritual called the Ghost Dance to bring the buffalo back.
This made the army nervous, and in 1890 they rounded up all the Sioux, including Sitting Bull

6. When they tried to take the Sioux’s weapons a fight broke out
Army troops killed 300 unarmed Sioux in the Massacre of Wounded Knee

7. Summary
Sitting Bull: Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn, but is taken at Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee: U.S. army rounds up Sioux and kills 300 unarmed people