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The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
The treaty signings at Portage des Sioux were to occur between July 18 and September 16. The most notable chief to refuse the invitation was Black Hawk who was compelled to come and was the last to sign the treaty. He was to resist its terms in the Black Hawk War. The tribes signing (in order of signatures): Potawatomi; Piankeshaw; Lakota
Powder River War (1865) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho: Red Cloud's War (1866–68) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho: Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to Native Americans; Creation of the Great Sioux Reservation (including the Black Hills ...
The Great Sioux Reservation was an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux, principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska , including all of present ...
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
A posse of 25 California settlers killed 45 Konkow Indians on their reservation in Round Valley, California. 45 [247] 1862: August–September: Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota: As part of the U.S.-Dakota War, the Sioux killed as many as 800 white settlers and soldiers throughout Minnesota. Some 40,000 white settlers fled their homes on the ...
For the United States, the Creek War was an important side conflict to increase their control in the South at the expense of Native American factions allied with and supplied by the British, while the Hartford Convention of the Federalist Party (December 1814 – January 1815) played a significant role in voicing strong opposition to the U.S ...
The Gratetan Massacre, also referred to as the Grattan Fight, was the initial conflict of the First Sioux War, occurring on August 19, 1854, between the United States Army and the Lakota Sioux warriors. This event took place east of Fort Laramie, located in the Nebraska Territory, which is now part of Goshen County, Wyoming.