Indian Wars

NA Chart – Wars/Battles

1. Apache and Navajo Wars (1861-1886)

2. Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

3. Red River War (1874-1875)

4. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

5. Nez Percé War (1877)

6. Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

Apache and Navajo Wars (1861-1886)

• Apache – AZ, NM, and CO territories

• Navajo – NM and CO territories

Apache Wars

• Geronimo

• Colonel Christopher“Kit” Carson

• Carson kills or relocates many Apache to reservations in 1862.

• Clashes drag on until Geronimo surrenders in 1886.

Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

• Sioux of the Northern Plains – Dakota, WY, and MT territories (Black Hills Region)

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Lt. Col. George A. Custer

• 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.”

Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

• Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (Pine Ridge Reservation)

• Sitting Bull• US 7th Calvary

• 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).

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