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Interior. This is relevant because it provides access to information compiled from the United States government’s extensive database of information regarding conflict in the Black Hills. The other significant source is a firsthand account from a Cheyenne woman that lived through and experienced the events leading up to the Great Sioux War of 1876, including the Black Hills Gold Rush. Source A. United States Department of the Interior, Native American Treaties and Broken Promises: 1851 to

Americans and civil war stories. He spent a long time studying different tribes all around the United States. He has brought out the voice of the Native Americans which was muffled and silenced by the army and government. This book brought much awareness to a cause many had forgotten about, and to the shock of many when they realized he was not a Native American. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee tells the stories of many Native American tribes and their hardships when facing the government, army, and settlers

only land, but the white men also stole their buffalo and children. Within 20 years the 20,000,000 buffalo that had roamed the plains dwindled to a crisis point for the Natives. In the following 7 years after that, the buffalo had perished, and the tribes that had depended on them were surviving on handouts from the government. When Richard Henry Pratt decided to take young indigenous people

Montana is now located near there, along with the Crow Indian Reservation. On June 25th and 26th, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer would lead the 7th Regiment of the U.S. Cavalry against the warriors of the Lakota, Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. 210 men of the 7th Cavalry Regiment went to battle those two days against an estimated warrior force of 1,500-1,800 Indian warriors.1 This battle remains one of the most studied military actions in U.S. history. The majority of the

the Greasy Grass. This Battle was also one of the last important stands of the American Indians against the United States of America. The Battle took place in the Montana Territory between the combined Indian tribes of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. These Indian tribes led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and other Indian leaders battled the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The Indian forces were victorious during this battle where they faced their much smaller

County, Montana. The adversaries in this battle were the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry, commanded by General George A. Custer against the Indian tribes of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, and Arapaho under the leadership of Sitting Bull. Several years after the Civil War had ended, the U.S. army began to focus it’s attention to arising conflicts with Indian tribes in the plains regions. These conflicts were the result of settlers beginning to migrate further out west, mainly in search of more land and

“Custer’s luck! The biggest Indian village on the continent!” Supposedly, these were the last words recorded to have been uttered by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer before the infamous battle that would claim his life and the lives of hundreds of soldiers (Dippie 2). Nearly a century and a half later, this conflict is immersed in just as much controversy as it was the day it occurred. The Battle of Little Bighorn and Custer’s Last Stand is perhaps more famous due to the difficulty of differentiating

The Kiowa Indians are a tribe of Native Americans. They migrated from western Montana southward into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and finally into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century. The Kiowa Indians are from Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The Kiowa tribe was forced to move to a reservation in Oklahoma during the 1800’s, and most Kiowa people are still living in Oklahoma today. They first lived in what is now called Montana. In the 1700s

I will be talking about the era of the American West in the middle and late 1800s and the differences and similarities of primary sources and the textbook HIST4. Chief Red Cloud’s Speech, the Sandy Creek Massacre from the Rocky Mountain News Editorial and Helen Hunt Jackson’s Account of Sandy Creek, Nannie Alderson, from the book called A Bride Goes West, Epitaph on a Tombstone, and Bill of sale for a Chinese Prostitute. For anyone wanting to know and read more about the American West you could attain

Early life Sitting Bull was born in Dakota Territory. He was named Jumping Badger at birth, when he was fourteen years old he accompanied a group of Lakota warriors (which included his father and his uncle Four Horns) in a raiding party to take horses from a camp of Crow warriors. Jumping Badger displayed bravery by riding forward and counting coup on one of the surprised Crow, which was witnessed by the other mounted Lakota. Upon returning to camp his father gave a celebratory feast at which he