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.