FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Between 60 and 100 soldiers were killed
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Native Americans were chased out of the area
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Estimates of 69 to 600 Native Americans killed
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Native Americans burned down Fort Lyon.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although initial reports indicated 10 soldiers killed and 38 wounded, the final tally was four killed and 21 wounded in the 1st Colorado Cavalry and 20 killed or mortally wounded and 31 other wounded in the 3rd Colorado Cavalry; adding up to 24 killed and 52 wounded.
Detailed explanation-2: -After finishing the massacre in the creek bed, the troops hunted for anyone who had escaped, then scalped and mutilated the bodies of the dead Indians, and destroyed the village. In all, roughly 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho died in the massacre.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the buffalo nearly wiped out, the Colorado plains were transformed to accommodate cattle ranching and Native peoples were pushed into confinement. In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act to distribute reservation lands into 160-acre holdings and force Indians to give up communal claims on reservation lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm.
Detailed explanation-5: -The casualties reflect the one-sided nature of the fight. Nine of Chivington’s men were killed; 148 of Black Kettle’s followers were slaughtered, more than half of them women and children. The Colorado volunteers returned and killed the wounded, mutilated the bodies, and set fire to the village.