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WHAT WERE THE EVENTS

Treaty of Fort Laramie, amendment to Indian Appropriations Act of 1876, Manypenny Agreement, Dawes Allotment Act

Treaty of Fort Laramie

1868: Created the Great Sioux Reservation (gov tried to put Natives in reservations owned by national gov, managed by Bureau of Indian Affairs, each reservation had multiple agencies of the BIA, tribes could have own gov at reservation)

Amendment to Indian Appropriations Act of 1876

Cut off all rations to Sioux until they ended hostilities and ceded the Black HIlls to US, called “sell or starve” rider

Manypenny Agreement

US seized the Black Hills and 47 million acres of hunting grounds from Sioux Nation, even though violated Treaty of Fort Laramie

Dawes Allotment Act

In 1887: each family got 160 acres of land to live on (to turn Natives into farmers like white ppl, not hunters). Couldn’t be sold for 25 years. Natives also got US citizenship

Sitting Bull (and the Lakota)’s response to the Treaty of Fort Laramie

They go to Canada 1877-1881

IMPACTS: Prevents living on the reservation for a few years, but is forced to surrender because of starvation, disease, and freezing/stormy conditions in Canada to go to Standing Rock