Presentation Notes (9/27/16)

Red River War :

  • 1874
  • Northern Texas
  • Campaign launched by the US Army
  • Move Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and the Arapaho
  • Ended the Indian way of life
  • They claimed buffalo plains as their lands
  • Move Indians out of Texas
  • Move them to Indian territory
  • Only about 25 Indians died
  • Killed more than a thousand horses
  • Destroyed Indian winter food supply
  • Last huge Indian resistance
  • Lowered Indian supplies

Battle of Wounded Knee :

  • The Lakota Sioux Native American fought against Major Samuel Whitside and the Seventh Cavalry
  • December 19, 1890
  • Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Southwestern South Dakota
  • Lakota Sioux Chief - Big Foot
  • Major - Samuel Whitside
  • US Government 1890 - Ghost Dance Spiritual Movement at Pine Ridge
  • Tried To Arrest Sitting Bull - Sioux Chief
  • US Army's 7th Cavalry Surrounded Group of Ghost Dancers Under Big Foot - Lakota Sioux
  • Demanded to Surrender Weapons
  • Fight Broke Out Between One Indian and One US soldier
  • We Won (Technically)
  • Even Numbers
  • Native Americans Were Less Armed
  • Lokata: 150 Deaths and 50 Injured
  • US: 25 Killed and 39 Injured
  • 1973 - The AIM and Supporters came back to this site to protest US Government mistreating the Native Americans
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