The Cayuse War Summary

One of the biggest conflicts between the settlers and Indians in Nevada was the Pyramid Lake Indian war of 1860. The war and deaths that followed was a result of tension, ignorance, anti-Indian attitude and misunderstanding. The war was preceded by violent incidents against both the whites and Indians and consisted of two larger battles.

treaty. Like, assimilating the Native Americans into American society. Which meant they were no longer allowed to speak in their traditional language at the schools they would attend. Assimilating the Indians into society was more of a way for the government to have even more control over them then they did with the removal.

There are many reasons for why the Whitman Massacre took place, miscommunication, Whitman's thinking of that the Cayuse were “savages”, and also not understanding a religion. In the beginning, the Whitmans didn’t give the Cayuse chief a gift, in the Cayuse culture if you take up time of a tribe or cheif you need to give them a gift. And the miscommunication was when the Whitmans thought that the Cayuse wanted to convert to Christianity, but in reality they just wanted to add the book and it’s teaching to their religion. Marcus soon realized this and he thinks that God sent him here to teach the new settlers about Christianity. The new settlers, the whites also brought along diseases. Marcus worked hard to save the kids with diseases like Measles. Since the whites brought diseases, the Indians got exposed to them. The kids were the most vulnerable to these diseases, but Marcus Whitman tried to help the kids. In Cayuse culture, if you try heal someone and they die while you are helping them then the family of the dead person has the right to kill you. Marcus took in the settlers and the Cayuse didn’t like this because the whites were taking their land and resources. More and more kids started to die, so on november 29th, 1847 a small group of Cayuse gathered up and killed the Whitmans and 11 others.

The Act focused on “civilizing power.” At this time, settlers argued that Indians had more land and that reservations were too big and being used “inefficiently.” The Act allotted Indian lands to individual Native Americans, splitting up tribes. According to the notes, “The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotment to Individual Native Americans.” Those who accepted allotments could become United States citizens.

As the colonies continued to expand, in 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal act. This act granted Indians rights to the unsettled land out west in exchange for the tribe settlement land along the east coast, mostly Southeast, to continue to grow the colony. This basically allowed the English to push the Indians off their tribal land so the English could colonize the property for a growth of the New World.

It marked its last resistance of its population devastated by disease and demoralized by the removal policy pursued by the government. Some tribes including the crow, Arikara, Pawnee and Shoshoni fought alongside US army against their own enemies, the Sioux. In 1877 the army issued an ultimatum come on to the reservation or be hunted down. |

This is all about the cause of the big brutal bloody battle. The pyramid Lake War started when keepers of a Pony Express Station kidnapped and assaulted two Northern Paiute women. A small band of Indians killed the responsible men and burned down the station. Without any attempt to hear the Indians side of the story, William Ormsby led 105 volunteers in an attempt to chaste the Indians. Instead, they were led into a trap of 1500 Indians. The Pony Express keepers should

The real drama started in 1831 when the Trail of Tears started. The Americans were forcing Natives to go to certain location to stay. Many of the Natives on the way died or got really sick.The settlers at first thought the Native were good people to trade with. Then the settlers started to take their land so the Natives stopped trading with them. The settlers had no respect for the Natives they just took their land and didn’t feel bad about it. But, this led to battle between the two. One of many battles was the Black Hawk War. The Sauk war chief known as “Black Hawk” had some problems with American and so they had a battle. There were 6000+ American militiamen and only 500 Indian Warriors plus helpers for both sides. The American only lost 77 and the Natives lost 450-600 total men that includes helpers. The Americans must really have wanted to win because they sent way too many people they had them 6000 men to 500 men. They did that just to show them that they are better and that they could whoop them in a

During the Pequot War the Puritans of Massachusetts were expanding the land that they already had, and this land would push the Pequot people away. With the spread of land the people came into increasingly more conflict. The Pequot was a more war like tribe then many of the others. By 1637 thirteen colonists have been killed by the Pequot tribe. Captain John Mason decided that they could not have this continue and decided that they needed to put an end to the issues they were having with the war like tribe. The Pequot seen that the colony was organizing and decided to attack first, and during this attack on the Connecticut settlement killing six men and women and taking away at least two children. Then on May 26, 1637 before dawn the Puritans attacked. After a few more attacks the last of the Pequot tribe was destroyed and the few that remained alive were then sold into slavery. This started the slide into war that we would not be able to come back

and it settlers greed for land and resources orchestrated the Nez Perce war. What should have been a peaceful and harmonious relationship between the Nez Perce and the U.S. was turned into a blood bath that would consume the people of the Nez Perce. Chief Joseph formally surrendered on October 5, 1877. He surrendered a broken man tired of seeing his people suffer. In his surrender speech he stated, "Here me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." In the early expansion of the U.S., treaties were popular between the U.S. and Indian tribes. Although many were signed, few were honored and many were

In 1847 the white people brought the measles to the cayuse tribe and then the indians leaders wife DIED. The cayuse indians got measles from the white people and dr.marcus whitman could not heal them and in their tribe they believe in getting revenge on a dr/medicineman if there people did in their hands. In 1836 marcus whitman went on a mission to convert the cayuse indians to christianity. Cayuse children who enrolled at whitman's school came down with the measles in 1847 and started an epidemic. The Cayuse indian war lasted 7 long bloody years between the Cayuse tribe and the united states.

Congress passed the Homestead Act, in 1862, which enabled Americans the ability to file a claim for 160 acres of land. The land could transfer ownership from the U.S. to the individual if bought outright for 1.25 per acre or after 5 years of living and improving the land. The incredible deal the Homestead Act offered promoted the settling of western lands and growth of the United States. Homestead Act acted as the catalyst in the development of the pressures on the Unassigned Lands to homestead settlement and the eventual creation of Oklahoma

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 also known as the Pope’s Rebellion according to Wikipedia.org it was named for one of the Pueblo Indians “Ohkay Owingeh” which means Pope. The people wanted the Spanish colonizers to leave the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico which is now known as New Mexico today. 400 Spanish where killed and the pueblo people drove the 2,000 remaining settlers out of the province.

Before the battle was even thought of, the Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne Native Americans were outraged that the new settlers were starting to violate their sacred lands. They lived in and around the Black Hills in South Dakota and near Montana. They were native to that land and believed it was their birthright. They didn’t want it for the gold or precious minerals in the mountains. Their ancestors had lived there in generations before and they wanted their children to live there for generations to come.The Sioux had signed a treaty with the American government saying that their sacred grounds in the Black Hills would be respected, which they were, up until gold was found in the area and American citizens flocked to the sacred lands of the Indians to strike it rich in the Black Hills. Although the treaty had promised them rights to the lands, the U.S. government ordered the Native

A massacre is “an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.” “The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government… with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the... Reservation… The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in… northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, they lived adjacent to territory occupied by the Nez Perce and had… associations with them… The Cayuse ceded most of their traditional territory to the United States in 1855 by treaty and… formed a confederated tribe.” The massacre was on the date November 29, 1847, the murder of Oregon missionaries Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa,