Native Americans
Cards (11)
- Sandy Creek Massacre - A brutal attack by US cavalry on a Cheyenne + Arapaho encampment in Colorado, resulting in the deaths of mostly women, children + elderly.
- Red Cloud's War - Conflict between the US + Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne + Arapaho tribes over control of the Powder River Country in Wyoming + Montana.
- Medicine Lodge Treaty - Treaty between US government + several Plains Indian tribes, including the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, + Southern Cheyenne + Arapaho, establishing reservations in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
- Fort Laramie Treaty - Agreement between US government + various Native American tribes, including the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho + others defining territories + establishing reservations in the Great Plains.
- Dakota Gold Rush - Influx of settlers into Dakota Territory following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, leading to increased tensions + conflicts with Native American tribes.
- Reservation policy - US government policy of confining Native American tribes to designated reservations, often forcibly removing them from their traditional lands.
- Little Big Horn - Battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by George Armstrong Custer + Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne +Arapaho warriors, resulting in a decisive Native American victory.
- Americanisation - Efforts by the US government to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American culture through education, religion + other means, often involving the suppression of indigenous languages + cultures.
- Great Sioux War - Series of conflicts between US government + various Sioux tribes, including the Lakota + Dakota, over land rights + treaty violations.
- Dawes Act - Legislation that authorised the US President to survey Native American tribal land + divide it into individual allotments for Native American families, with the goal of promoting assimilation + privatisation of tribal lands.
- Battle of Wounded Knee - Violent confrontation between the US Army + Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Native American men, women + children, marking the end of large-scale armed resistance by Plains tribes.