Early Conflicts on the Plains
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- Early Conflicts on the Plains
- The Cheyenne uprising and And Creek-1864
- April,1864, after distribute over cattle, many Cheyenne began raids
- on ranches and stagecoaches
- August- Governor of Colorado Territory issued a proclamation urging the hunting down of 'hostile Indians'
- Volunteers shot every Cheyenne they could find
- Chief Black Kettle wanted peace and a safe winter camp.
- Army officers offered him protection if he would move to Sand Creek
- 29th November,1864,Colonel John Chivington attacked Black Kettles Camp with 700 volunteers
- Of 500 in the camp, 163 were killed, 110 of them women and children
- The rest, including Black Kettle, escaped
- Volunteers returned to Denver,displaying scalps as trophies
- Chivington was condemned, never punished
- Meanwhile, the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux retaliated by burning ranches and stage stations, and killing women and children
- Washita River, Oklahoma 1868, Black Kettle killed by Lt. Col.George Cluster's soldiers
- April,1864, after distribute over cattle, many Cheyenne began raids
- Red cloud's War and the Bozeman Trail-1866
- Bozeman Trail connected to Platte River with mines in Montana
- Passed through hunting ground of Sioux, which had been guaranteed to them by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
- Army wanted to build forts on the rail to protect travellers from Indians
- Talk with Red Cloud in 1866-Sioux leader
- Talks failed when Sioux saw soldiers starting to build before any deal was made
- Col.H.B.Carrington started building 3 forts.
- Harassed by groups of Plain Indians, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
- Dec 1866, Capt.W.J.Fetterman's force was ambushed and destroyed-100 soliders died
- Army had to negotiate and surrender
- Bozemann Trail Forts were abandoned and burned by the Native Americans
- Red Cloud consented to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
- The US gave the Sioux western South Dakota as a reservation and agreed not to re-fortify the Bozeman Trail
- Red Cloud promised never again to make war on the settlers- he kept his promise
- The US gave the Sioux western South Dakota as a reservation and agreed not to re-fortify the Bozeman Trail
- Bozeman Trail connected to Platte River with mines in Montana
- The Cheyenne uprising and And Creek-1864
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