CHRONOLOGY

• – First Treaty of Fort Laramie.

• – Great Sioux Uprising (Santee Uprising).

• – Sand Creek massacre.

• – Treaty of Medicine Lodge.

• – Second Treaty of Fort Laramie.

• – Hunters begin to decimate bison herds.

• – Gold is discovered in Black Hills.

• – Battle of the Little Big Horn.

• – Sitting Bull surrenders.

• – Frederick Jackson Turner presents “frontier thesis.”