Week of Sep 26-30

[1Kara]

Monday: work day

Tuesday: presentations

1st Group

Red River War (1874)

1. June through November (not constant)
2. Happened in Northern Texas
3. Campaign launched by US Army
4. Between Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and the Arapaho and the US Army
5. Land was promised to Native Americans at first
6. Ended the Indian way of life
7. Moved Indians out of Texas and in to Indian territory
8. Americans wanted the Plains land
9. 25 Indians died
10. Killed more than a thousand horses
    1. Targeted horses more than the Indians
11. Destroyed Indian winter food supply
    1. Americans went in to village and destroyed food supply
12. Last huge Indian resistance

2nd Group

Battle of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890)

1. Between the Lakota Sioux Native Americans and Major Samuel Whitside and the Seventh Cavalry (small army on horse)
2. Ghost Dancers
   1. Cavalry arrested the ghost dancers
3. Happened on Pine ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota
4. Leaders
   1. Native Americans
      1. Chief Big Foot/ Chief Spotted Elk (Lakota Sioux Chief)
   2. American Cavalry
      1. Major Samuel Whitside
5. US government 1890
   1. Became aware of ghost dance spiritual movement
   2. Began to stop Native Americans from ghost dancing
   3. Ghost dance was rejecting the white man's beliefs
   4. Believed god would create a world and kill all non-believers
6. Tried to Arrest Sitting Bull
   1. Killed him in process
   2. Increased tension
7. US Army's 7th Cavalry surrounded Ghost Dancers
   1. Demanded Indians to surrender weapons
   2. Fight broke out between one Indian and one US soldier
      1. Shot was fired
      2. Unclear who shot
8. Cavalry technically one
9. Considered more of a massacre
10. Indians were less armed
11. Deaths/Casualties
    1. Lakota 
       1. Deaths- 150 (half women and children)
       2. Injured- 50
    2. US
       1. Deaths- 25
       2. Injured 39
12. February 19733
    1. The AIM and Supporters came back to the site to protest US Government mistreating the Native Americans

Wednesday: no school

Thursday: presentations

Third Group

Battle of Little Bighorn (1874)

1. Between US Army 7th Regiment and the Lakota Sioux, North Cheyenne, Arapaho Tribes
2. Leaders
   1. US Army
      1. Lt. Col George Armstrong Carter
   2. Native Americans
      1. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
3. Near Little Bighorn River in south central Montana Territory (Black Hills)
4. Involved steep ridges and bluffs near the river
5. Tension between US and Lakota escalated
6. Custer went on expedition for land and they discovered gold on Native American land
7. The US negotiated with the Lakota to purchase the Black Hills and Lakotas declined
8. Fort Laramie Treaty
   1. Guaranteed Lakota ownership of Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana
   2. US violated this treaty
9. Casualties/ Deaths
   1. US- 17 officers and 293 troopers killed or died of wounds
   2. Native Americans- 136 dead, 160 wounded

Fourth Group (our group)

Fetterman Massacre

Friday: Gone for decorating for coronation