1840's: White settlers started taking up the land and the Natives would either be transported away somewhere else, or they would sign a peace treaty so that the Indians will live elsewhere as long as the government supplies them with food, financial aid, health care, and schools.
1850: The government broke the promises, so the Sioux started attacking wagons and scaring the white people away.
1851: Peace treaty for there to have parts of land where there are no whites.
1856: Forts and roads were being built in the Sioux's land, so Red cloud and other Sioux destroyed them.
1871: No more Peace treaties.
1874: White gold seekers take up land after gold is discovered.
1875: The Sioux refused to sell the land to the white people.
1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and over 200 men invaded the land to attack and claim what they thought was rightfully theirs. Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and many other Indians wiped them all out.
Portrait of “The Battle of Little Bighorn” on June 25, 1876.
Important People in the Black Hills war:
From the Sioux:
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
From the White Side/Government:
Lt. Col. George A. Custer
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