1. Indian Wars

2. NA Chart – Wars/Battles
Apache and Navajo Wars ( )
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Red River War ( )
Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
Nez Percé War (1877)
Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

3. Apache and Navajo Wars (1861-1886)
Apache – AZ, NM, and CO territories
Navajo – NM and CO territories

4. Apache Wars
Geronimo
Colonel Christopher “Kit” Carson

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

6. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)
Sioux of the Northern Plains – Dakota, WY, and MT territories (Black Hills Region)

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

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

9. Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)
Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (Pine Ridge Reservation)

10. Sitting Bull
US 7th Calvary

11. 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).

12. 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