Monday - Work Day
Tuesday - Presentations
- Red River War - 1874
- Northern Texas
- June through November
- Campaign launched by the US Army
- Against Indians - Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho
- Claimed buffalo plains as their land
- Moved them out of Texas into a reservation
- 25 NAs dead
- 1000+ horses dead
- US destroyed Indian Winter food supply
- Last huge Indian Resistance
- Lowered supplies
- Battle of Wounded Knee (Our group)
Wednesday - NO SCHOOL
Thursday - Presentations
- Battle of Litle Bighorn
- US army cavalry 7th regiment
- Crow ans Shoshone scouts
- Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho tribes
- Leaders - Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer
- Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
- Near Little Bighorne River in the Black Hills
- Tension between US and Lakota
- Treaty of Fort Laramie - April 29, 1868
- Agreement of the US and the Oglala, Minicoujou and Brule bands of Lakota
- Giving land to Lakota, we later took it back
- Map the area
- Discovery of gold in the area
- US - 17 officers and 293 troops dead - No survivors
- NA - 136 dead and 160 injured
- Fetterman Massacre
- William J. Fetterman
- Commander of US army
- him and 80 men
- led them into the massacre
- all of them died
- Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho vs the US
- December 21, 1866
- Indians Won, all Americans dead
- Indians set traps on the US
- Led them into an ambush
- Red Cloud leader of Oglala Lakota
- Crazy Horse and Red Cloud came up with the surprise ambush
- CH lead decoy party
- William J. Fetterman
Friday - STUCO
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