Red Cloud's War
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- Red Cloud's War (1866-68)
- Causes
- Gold discovered in Montana 1862
- Bozeman Trail crossed important Lakota Sioux hunting ground
- Broke 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty
- Bozeman Trail crossed important Lakota Sioux hunting ground
- 1866
- Government wanted Lakota Sioux to allow safe passage across lands
- In return for gifts and a promise their hunting lands wouldn't be disturbed
- Government wanted Lakota Sioux to allow safe passage across lands
- Red Cloud discovered Government had already bought materials to build forts along Bozeman Trail
- Had been tricked
- Chose to fight
- Had been tricked
- Gold discovered in Montana 1862
- Two year fight
- Bands followed Red Cloud
- Attacked forts and soldiers
- Joined by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
- Bought Cheyenne and Arapaho bands to fight
- 3,000 Indians against 700 soldiers
- Bought Cheyenne and Arapaho bands to fight
- Bands followed Red Cloud
- Fetterman's Trap December 1866
- 80 cavalrymen sent to protect builders collecting wood
- Led into ambush by Indians, all died
- 80 cavalrymen sent to protect builders collecting wood
- Lakota Sioux surrounded Fort Phil Kearney
- No-one could leave or enter
- No-one could travel along the Bozeman Trail
- 1867
- Peace Commission reported best way to end conflict was to move the Plains Indians west
- 1868
- US Government agreed to close Bozeman Trail
- In return, Red Cloud agreed to take his people onto a reservation in Dakota
- US Government agreed to close Bozeman Trail
- Causes
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