The Great Sioux War Flashcards

1
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what was it preceded by

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the 2nd fort Laramie treaty

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why were native Americans angry

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NA weren’t receiving provisions they were promised –officials were corrupt and incompetent e.g. Clonel Parker 1871
Lack of wildlife on the reservations made it hard to stay confined

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how did discovery of gold increase tension

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Difficult to keep settlers from encroaching on the NA land
1874 Colonel Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills – to protect railway surveyors and find out if there was gold (breaking FLT 1868)
He reported that there was gold “from the grassroots down”
US army unable to protect the thousands of miners who flooded into the BH
Gov unwilling to stop them
Sioux attacked miners

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4
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when was the great Sioux war

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1874

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5
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what did the government do

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offered to buy the black hills for 6 million but it was sacred and native Americans believed land couldn’t be bought
so the offer was rejected

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6
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what were the Sioux ordered to do

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return to the reservation in December 1875 but couldn’t as it was winter

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what were the us government ordered to do

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February 1876 army was instructed to treat all Sioux outside the reservation as hostile

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