RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
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The US government negotiated a new Fort Laramie Treaty that created a Great Sioux Reservation in the Powder River Country.
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White Americans were ordered by the US government to stop migrating westward.
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A new trail that avoided Sioux land was created to the gold mines of the Rockies.
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The US army withdrew from their first along the Bozeman Trail.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With peace achieved under the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, the Lakota and their allies were victorious. They gained legal control of the western Powder River country, took down the forts and permanently closed the Bozeman trail.
Detailed explanation-2: -None of them survived. With 81 fatalities, the Fetterman Massacre was the army’s worst defeat in the West until the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Further attacks eventually forced the army to reconsider its commitment to protecting the Bozeman Trail, and in 1868 the military abandoned the forts and pulled out.
Detailed explanation-3: -Red Cloud became a leader of the Lakota as they transitioned from the freedom of the plains to the confinement of the reservation system. His trip to Washington, DC, had convinced him of the number and power of European Americans, and he believed the Oglala had to seek peace.
Detailed explanation-4: -The famous Chief of the Oglala Lakota, Red Cloud, led the only successful native war against the United States. At the Fetterman Massacre, he inflicted the Army’s greatest defeat at the hands of any native leader until the Battle of Little Bighorn a decade later.
Detailed explanation-5: -The main drawback for the Bozeman Trail was that it crossed the hunting grounds of the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians. The wagon trains that attempted to cross were warned by the tribes to turn back.