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End of the Trail - Native American Resistance (redirected from End of the Trail - Native American Resistence)

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Point of Interest: In most college level textbooks when whites wiped out Indians the engagement was usually a "battle"; when Indians wipe out whites it was a "massacre" 

 

 

 

1864

1864, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on Black Kettle and his band, who had been told they would be safe on this desolate reservation. 200 Cheyenne men, women and children were slaughtered, and their corpses often grotesquely mutilated, in a massacre that shocked the nation.

 

1866

A Lakota war party led by Chief Red Cloud attacks a wagon train bringing supplies to newly-constructed Fort Phil Kearny on the Powder River in northern Wyoming. The Lakota see the fort, situated to protect travel to Montana mining country along the Bozeman Trail, as a threat to their territory. When a patrol led by Captain William J. Fetterman rides out to drive off the war party, it is lured far from the fort and destroyed to the last man.

 

1874

General Custer finds gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota Immediately attacked by the Sioux whose land was protected by a treaty with the whites

 

1871

 

 

 

Congress halted formal treaty making in 1871, attaching a rider to the Indian Appropriation Act of that year stipulating "that hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty.

 

Provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to invalidate or impair the obligation of any treaty heretofore lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe."

 

1875

THE LAKOTA WAR A Senate commission meeting with Red Cloud and other Lakota chiefs to negotiate legal access for the miners rushing to the Black Hills offers to buy the region for $6 million. But the Lakota refuse to alter the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, and declare they will protect their lands from intruders if the government won't.

 

 

 

 

 

1876

Custer’s Last Stand The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.  12,000 Sioux wipe out 600 of Custer’s men in 20 minutes

 

1879 The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was America's first federal off-reservation boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white culture through systematic suppression of their indigenous identities, languages, and traditions.  [2MD] Sun Elk, a Taos Pueblo Indian

1887

Congress passes the Dawes Severalty Act, imposing a system of private land ownership on Native American tribes for whom communal land ownership has been a centuries-old tradition. Individual Indians become eligible to receive land allotments of up to 160 acres, together with full U.S. citizenship

 

1890

Congress establishes the Oklahoma Territory on unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory, breaking a 60-year-old pledge to preserve this area exclusively for Native Americans forced from their lands in the east.

 

1890  

Wounded Knee Creek  and Ghost Dance Movement – Indian Resistance and Hostility

This freaks out white people. Remember early slave revolts?

 

Federal troops massacre the Lakota Chief Big Foot and his 350 followers at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in a confrontation fueled by the government’s determination to stop the spread of the Ghost Dance among the tribes. The incident stands in U.S. military history as the last armed engagement of the Indian Wars.

Prof. Dr. Louis Warren on "The Ghost Dance Movement"

 

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Wounded Knee Massacre 

Sitting Bull's half-brother, Big Foot, and some 200 Sioux were killed by the U.S. 7th Cavalry. only fourteen days before, Sitting Bull had been killed with his son Crow Foot at Standing Rock Agency in a gun battle with a group of Indian police that had been sent by the American government to arrest him 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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