The Cause Of Red Cloud's War

Winning the war over the Powder River Country proved the strength of the Native Americans and helped provide better Native American rights in the future. In order to put an end to Red Cloud’s War, the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed on November 6, 1868. The treaty provided the Sioux with land, education, farming supplies, clothes, money, doctors, carpenters, and teachers, and stated that no white men could reside on the reservation without permission, Indians could hunt outside the reservation, treaties taking land away could not be made, the Indians could not settle anywhere else, and the Bozeman trail would be abandoned, but only if the war ended, Native Americans stopped raiding, and they ceased opposing the building of forts and railroads.

After what I had seen over there, I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill” (214). When the war party went out, even Black Elk lost control, and instead of focusing on trying to help his people, he went out and focused on killing those that had harmed his people. He forgot about his vision, and the grandfathers and focused his attention on the wasichus. The fact that even Black Elk, the man who was given powers to heal and who was shown the fate of his people shows that the tribe had indeed lost control. Black Elk was shown what would happen to his people, and yet he had forgotten and went out for blood. “We wanted a much bigger war-party so that we could meet the soldiers and get revenge. But this was hard, because the people were not all of the same mind, and they were hungry and cold.” (217) Although a majority of the tribe wanted to go and get revenge, there were still those who were unsure, cold, hungry, and tired. The whole tribe did not want to go out and fight like they had in the past, and the warriors lost the support of their people to the harsh winter and gnawing hunger, that clawed the bellies of everyone in the tribe. Both Black Elk and everyone in the tribe had lost their support for each other, and lost sight of trying to stay together, and trying to stay alive for as long as the vision would allow. That was when the Sioux lost control of their fate. When they were forced to lower their weapons not only by Red Cloud’s demand,

The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in 1876 along the Little Big Horn River in south central Montana. Warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes battled the seventh Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer. The battle has come to symbolize the clash of two vastly different civilizations including a hunting culture of the northern plains and a highly sophisticated, industrial-based culture of the U.S. This battle was not an isolated soldier-warrior confrontation but rather a highly strategic campaign. Essentially, Lakota leaders such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse rejected the newly implemented reservation system which was put into effect by the Fort Laramie Treaty. General Armstrong Custer

Most Americans have at least some vague image of the Trail of Tears, but not very many know of the events that led to that tragic removal of several thousand Indians from their homeland. Indian lands were held hostage by the states and the federal government, and Indians had to agree to removal to preserve their identity as tribes. Trail of Tears is an excellent snapshot of a particular situation and will be eye opening to those who are not familiar with the story of the southern tribes and their interactions with the burgeoning American population. The Trail of Tears has become the symbol in American history that signifies the callousness of American policy makers toward American Indians in 1839 and 1839.

On June 25, 1876, a battle was fought on the territory of Montana. This battle became known as the battle of Little Bighorn. The battle took place because Natives refused to move off territories that they were told to move from into native reserves. When they refused the U.S Army was dispatched to confront them. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong led the troops into battle. Native warriors from Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne outnumbered the Army. June 25,

There is a lot of history behind the Blackfoot tribe that I am sure a lot of people are unaware of. The Blackfoot tribe first learned about and got their first horses and riles in 1700, also during that time they traveled along the Rocky Mountains. In 1851 there was a treaty that was called the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. The Blackfoot tribe was not one of the tribes that attended the negotiation of this treaty, but it still greatly affected their tribe. Article 5 of the Treaty defined the territory of this tribe and used the Musselshell, Missouri, Yellowstone Rivers, and the Rocky Mountain Range as markers of this territory. In 1873 and 1874, President Grant made Executive Orders shrinking reservation lands. The 1873 Order diminished the 1851 and 1855 treaty lands and created an entire reservation for the Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, and Sioux. This territory went from north of the Missouri and Sun River east to the Dakota border. The 1874 Executive Order moved the southern boundary north from the Sun

After the Sioux signed the peace treaty the soldiers wanted to take more of their land, they had forced the Sioux out f their own land, the Sioux had to move to the reservations instead. Sitting Bull once again joined with the other Sioux chiefs in 1876, to fight back and get their land back from the government. Together the tribes fought back against the government to take back

Prompt: Although the development of the Trans-Mississippi West is popularly associated with hardy individualism, it was in fact largely dependent on the federal government. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to western economic activities in the 19th century. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the idea of

The conflict that occurred between the U.S. Government and the Native American Indian tribes, known as the Great Sioux War. It was a lengthy, disjointed struggle between the U.S. Army and the allied tribes of the Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians that occurred in the span of fifteen months between, March 1876 and May 18771. Hostilities between the U.S. Government and the Native American Indian tribes grew due to the movement of settlers on the land promised to them. The Northern Plains, which consist of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, is where the majority of the war took place. The most prominent battle of this war was the Battle of Little Big Horn, due to the amount of casualties taken by the U.S. 7TH Cavalry led

The red cloud uprising started when the army started to build forts on the Bozeman Trail. The lakota tribe used that as their hunting grounds. Crazy horse a leader of that tribe made the commander think that there was a small raiding party at the forts. The army sent a group of 80 soldiers to investigate. The natives were ready and killed the group of soldiers and the us abandoned the forts. The natives wanted there land back so they tricked

In 1861, Congress creaked the Dakota Territory, which consisted of oresent-day North and South Dakota, and most of Montana and Wyoming. The Indian Wars prevented rapid settlement on the territory in the 1860s. The Red Cloud Wars were the most vital wars that led up to the Massacre of Wounded

Now known as “The Long Walk,” hundreds of Navajo people died or were killed by soldiers along the way, leaving them with a massive historical trauma in their history. Once they arrived, many more died from starvation, disease, were subject to rape and many hardships just to survive. Firewood was scarce, food wouldn’t grow, the water was undrinkable and the people were subject to raids by other tribes in the area and were powerless to help themselves. The Treaty of Bosque Redondo reversed all of that. It was the last treaty the Navajos signed with the U.S. and it not only freed Navajos from “captivity” but returned them to the homeland they were forced to leave rather than have them relocated to Oklahoma or Florida, as the federal government did with many other tribes. The Navajo people were able to resurrect their reservation, with protection of rights and safe-keeping from raiding’s. Navajo people also received seed supplements (as mentioned above), agricultural implements and other provisions, compensation to tribal members for their troubles and compulsory education for children. The Navajo agreed for ten years to send their children to school’s set up by the United States government and government, in return, agreed to establish schools with teachers for every thirty Navajo children. The U.S. government also promised that for ten years they would make annual deliveries of things the Navajo Tribes could not make for themselves. The Navajo people’s lives improved considerably from this treaty and thank goodness they did because the unethical decisions made by the U.S Government in the early 1860’s were

Most Americans have at least some vague understanding of the Trail of Tears, but not many know about the events that led to that tragic removal of thousands of Indians from their homeland. Indian lands were held hostage by the states and the federal government. The Indians had to agree to removal to maintain their tribe identities. Trail of Tears is an excellent example of a particular situation and will be eye opening to those who are not familiar with the story of the southern tribes and their interactions with the rapidly growing American population. The Trail of Tears has become the symbol in American history that indicates the callousness, insensitivity, and cruelty of American government toward American Indians in 1839 and 1839.

Chapter 5: Powder River Invasion The Cheyennes learn that soldiers are building a fort in the Powder River country. A Cheyenne warrior tries to warn some Arapahos of coming soldiers, but they do not believe him, and their village is destroyed by one military column. A group of Sioux chase the half−starved,

There were Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, the Chickasaws, the Creeks, the Choctaws and the Seminoles. In 1830 the tribes had moved in a direction to live with the whites and adopted the ways of the white man. The Indians resisted suggestions that they should remove themselves from their own land. So, President Jackson urged the Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act, which appropriated funds for relocation, by force if necessary. Jackson sent officials to try to negotiate treaties with the Indians. Some tribes reluctantly signed and prepared to move, but not the Cherokees, who took extensive steps to adopt white ways. The Cherokees fought back by using the law. At first, it appeared they won because the Supreme Court said that legally the Cherokees could not be removed from their land. But Jackson refused to follow the ruling of the Supreme Court. The Cherokees were then forced to leave their lands and go west to Oklahoma. This was called the ?Trail of Tears? because along the journey to Oklahoma more than one-quarter of the Cherokees died. The Seminole tribe took a different route then the Cherokees and they fought back. The war lasted into the 1840?s and the government just decided to give up and let them stay. My father tells me that this was a time the government is already trying to ignore and not acknowledge it as a very brutal and pointless mistake.