Week of September 26th - September 30th

Monday - Work day

Tuesday - Presentations

  • Red River War - 1874
    • Northern Texas
    • Campaign was launched by the United States Army
    • Against Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and the Arapaho
    • Ended Indian Way of life
    • Claimed buffalo plains as heir lands
    • Moved Native Americans out of Texas to Indian Territory
    • Americans wanted land
    • Only about 25 Native Americans died
    • More than 1000 horses died - US Military targeted the horses over the poeple
    • Destroyed Indians winter food supply

Wednesday - No School

Thursday

  • Battle of Little Bighorn
    • 7th Regiment
    • Crow and Shoshone
    • Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer
    • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
    • Near the Little Bighorn River in Montana (Black Hills)
    • 1874 Tensions rose - Custer was ordered to explore
    • Fort Laramie Treaty
      • agreement between United States and Native Americans
      • April 29, 1868
    • 17 officers and 293 American troops killed
    • 136 Native Americans died 160 wounded
  • Fetterman Massacre
    • Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho vs United States
    • December 21, 1866
    • Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming
    • Native Americans won - killed 81 (all) mean under William J Fetterman
    • Indians ambushed the Americans
    • Red Cloud was the leader of the Lakota - Vowed to fight any white man that used the Bozeman Trail
    • Crazy Horse was the war leader of the Lakota - led decoy party of Native Americans
    • Colonel William Fetterman lead the US Army - all of the men were killed
    • 81 US Fatalities
    • Native American death count unknown

Friday - Gone for Student Council

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