9 1876-95 The destruction of the Plains Indians
End of Sioux resistance.
1877, however army harassment still continued until 1890.
Dawes Act
1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots.
1887
2,020 Plains Indians were in 110 day schools.
1889
50,000 homesteaders join the first land rush in central Indian territory.
1885
All plains Indians are confined to the reservations.
1883
Buffalo effectively extinct.
Carlisle
Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school to civilise Indians.
Spring 1877
Crazy Horse surrendered in Nebraska and later killed at Fort Robinson.
Yosemite
Established in 1890 this was the first national park in the US.
1880 Hunting
Estimated 5000 whites were killing buffalo on the plains ending the northern heard by 1883.
Assimilate
For the plains Indians it meant becoming US citizens and abandoning their old way of life.
1885 New Courts
Plains Indians lost all ability to govern themselves.
Consequence of Little Bighorn
Pressure on the US government to exterminate the Indians increased speeding up the Indians defeat.
1895
Settlers claimed so much land that the frontier no longer existed.
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876
Sioux rebellion against Grants order in 1875, 7000 Sioux emerged around Rosebud river.
Problems facing Indians
Starvation, Trapped in reservations, Destruction of culture, Discrimination.
1876 Railroads
The Northern Pacific Railroad began to push into Sioux territory.
By 1890
The Plains Indians lost half the land they had in 1887.
Protection of Buffalo
The Sioux protected the buffalo until 1876.
Wounded Knee Massacre
The massacre 250 Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota in 1890.
Oklahoma Land Rush
Thousands of white settlers rushed into Indian territory to claim plots of land.
Sioux
Tribe of native Americans that lived in plains near the Rockies.