RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Sioux
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Hidatsa
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Nez Perce
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Shoshone
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Detailed explanation-1: -The battle dealt the Nez Perce a grave, though not fatal, blow. The remaining Indians were able to escape, and they headed northeast towards Canada. Two months later, on October 5, Colonel Nelson Miles decisively defeated the Nez Perce at the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Nez Percé War of 1877 resulted from two otherwise unrelated events: a shady treaty negotiation that ceded some tribal lands and a raid in the Wallowa valley in which several settlers were killed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears, ” because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4, 000 out of 15, 000 of the Cherokees died.
Detailed explanation-4: -The so-called Plains Wars essentially ended later in 1876, when American troops trapped 3, 000 Sioux at the Tongue River valley; the tribes formally surrendered in October, after which the majority of members returned to their reservations.