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

Red Cloud's Revenge Red Cloud’s Revenge is a historical novel about the grim recollection of detailed events and days/months before the showdown between the US Cavalry & Sioux Indians on the northern plains of 1867. Fetterman, Brown & Grummond rode out ahead of seventy-eight soldiers that day on December 21st 1866. In hopes of driving out some Sioux Indians and bring some scalps home. Many soldiers’ guard was down when Fetterman’s entire force disappeared over Trail Lodge Ridge. None of them

Absaraka: Home of the Crows Margaret Carrington This book was written by Margaret Carrington (1831-1870), the wife of the Commanding Officer Colonel Henry B. Carrington, at Fort Philip Kearny. This novel was written from her own journal about her time spent traveling to the outpost up to her return to Fort Laramie. The book reads initially as a guide to prospective travelers on the Virginia City road, and finishes in the same fashion. In between are her first hand accounts of the troubles experienced

One cannot examine U.S. history without looking at the interactions between Native Americans and Americans. From colonization to industrialization, conflicts between these groups have always been prevalent. Indians have been stripped of their land, heritage and status. Our guns, germ and culture have killed them. One can see this power struggle in many pieces of literature. Two being, “Crazy Horse: A Life”, a secondary source focusing on a Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and the Plains peoples, and “Indian

Red Cloud was born around 1820 near the forks of the Platte River, near the present day city of North Platte, Nebraska. His parents were Lone Man, and Walks as She Thinks. When asked about his name, he said it was a family name. Red Cloud’s parents died when he was around the age of five or so. After the death of his parents, Red Cloud went to live with his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke, who raised him with the knowledge and skills needed to provide for his family and to defend the Lakota homeland

humor, or anything that ties us to those who lived in that time. Primary sources act as time capsule for us, they provide stories and insight into what was going on. Truth be told, our textbook sugar coats history, it may relinquish subtle hints of war and bloodshed, but the romance and encounters seem to be subtracted from the lessons. As students and as humans, learning about these individuals who suffered or had the loose ends of the working system is what connects us to them. If the book incorporated

would mean more death than help to the Sioux In the end, Red Cloud has to command the people to stop fighting and to think of the women and children. “Our party wanted to go out and fight anyway, but Red Cloud made a speech to us something like this: ‘Brothers, this is a very hard winter. The women and children are starving and freezing. If this were summer, I would say to keep on fighting to the end. But we cannot do this’” (Neihardt 217-218). Red Cloud is forced to convince his people to stop fighting

while the white settlers regarded it as key infrastructure necessary for their continued gold mining operations. A Sioux warrior by the name of Red Cloud along with small contingents of warriors began to attack supply convoys travelling along the trail in an attempt to deter white settlers from destroying sacred Sioux lands and hunting grounds. Red Cloud’s campaign against the use of the “Bozeman Trail” was so successful that the U.S. government proposed peace talks to the Western Sioux. The intent

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

settlers coming west so they had uprisings. Some of them helped the natives and some for the settlers. In the end the setters got the best of the native americans. The important uprisings are the battle of little bighorn, sand creek, and red cloud's war. 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