 Move N.A. west of Mississippi River- “One Big Reservation”  1850s- Concentration Policy- definite boundaries for tribes as American settlers sought western lands  1860s- Small Reservations- Dakota Territory and Oklahoma  1887- Dawes Act- DIVIDE and assimilate (end tribal way of life)  1934- Indian Reorganization Act- stress tribal unity and autonomy  Movie begins with Battle of Little Bighorn . June 25, 1876 . Gold seekers and US Army had entered Sioux lands . General Custer is defeated- “massacre”  Different perspectives . Those resisting assimilation, those that are products of assimilation, American policy makers, Americans hoping to help Americans on the reservations  Battle of Wounded Knee . December 29, 1890 . Ended Ghost Dance movement and armed Sioux resistance SITTING BULL  Sioux holy man  Defeated Custer at Battle of LBH  Resists submission to US government policies that are designed to break up their way of life  Participated in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows RED CLOUD

 Sioux Chief  Resisted American pressures- both violently and diplomatically HENRY DAWES

 US Senator  Dawes Act!! CHARLES EASTMAN

 Sioux doctor who is shown as proof of the alleged success of assimilation ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN

 Schoolteacher who works to better conditions for Native Americans on the reservation WOVOKA

 Inspires Sioux with Ghost Dance . Set of dances and rites that would bring back N.A. lands, way of life and cause the whites to disappear 1890 April/May: A delegation of Lakota representatives returns DATE EVENT from meeting Wovoka and begins to teach the Spirit (Ghost) Dance. 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty August/September: Newspaper reporters begin coverage of the 1863 “Red Cloud’s War” “Ghost Dance”, presenting it as a focal point for an Indian 1868 Treaty of 1868 uprising. White settlers are alarmed. 1874 Lt. Col. George A. Custer leads a party October: The Spirit Dance is introduced at Standing Rock Agency. into the Black Hills. Gold is discovered. November: President Benjamin Harrison orders the military to 1875 Gold rush begins in the Black Hills. take control of the Lakota reservations. 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. December 15: The Agent at Standing Rock Agency, James McLaughlin, sends Indian police to arrest Sitting Bull. Sitting 1877 Sitting Bull flees to Canada. Crazy Bull is killed. Horse surrenders and is killed at Fort December 16: Big Foot, leader of a Minneconjou band on the Robinson, Nebraska. Cheyenne River Reservation, is ordered arrested as a troublemaker. 1883 Sitting Bull returns to Standing Rock December 21: Big Foot learns of the death of Sitting Bull. Agency. December 23: Big Foot’s band begins a flight to Pine Ridge Agency. 1887 The Dawes Act is created. December 28: The band is intercepted by Maj. Samuel Whiteside and the 7th Cavalry. The band is escorted to a camp site on 1889 Wovoka, a prophet and visionary of the Wounded Knee Creek. Paiute, has his great vision. December 29: Forsyth decides to disarm the Lakota. A shot is fired, and the massacre begins. Up to 300 Lakota men, women, and children are killed.

1891 January 1: A burial party returns to the site of the massacre. From: Wounded Knee Museum They bury 146 Lakota bodies in a mass grave.

 Describe different perspectives  Legislation and events  Various attempts at solutions for Native Americans and US