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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