AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dawes Act, Sand Creek Massacre, Dakota Territory
14 Mar 2018
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Legislation granting "homesteads" of 160 acres of government-owned land to settlers who agreed to work the land for at least five years. A brutal slaughter of unarmed indian men, women, and children who had been promised protection by the territorial governor of colorado; the massacre ignited warfare between. Americans and indians across the central plains for the next three years. One of the sioux"s and cheyenne"s last armed efforts to preserve their way of life. A native american chief who led serval attacks on u. s. forts in the west. The war of these people was between serval bands of the tribe. The conflict started because of some bands who refused to give their lands up and move to reservations. A spiritual and political movement among native americans whose followers performed a ceremonial "ghost dance" intended to connect the living with the dead and make the indians bulletproof in battles that were intended to restore their homelands.
