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Volunteer soldiers. The conflict resulted in the abandonment of some settlements and homes and postponed Mormon expansion in the region.

Lieutenant Caspar Collins and a small detachment of soldiers were sent out from Platte Bridge Station to try and reach the wagon train and escort it to the station, but upon crossing the bridge to the north, they were overwhelmed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Lieutenant Collins and several of the men were killed. Custer and 21 soldiers were killed. This attack caused the Arapaho to join forces with the Sioux and Cheyenne. Army during the Indian Wars. By the Treaty of Fort Laramie , the U.

The reservation included the entire Black Hills. Fetterman and 80 men, killing every one of them. Smith, Montana , Territory, the battle pitted a determined stand of 31 soldiers and civilians against more than Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. The soldiers guarding woodcutters near Fort Phil Kearny , Wyoming , took refuge in a corral formed by laying 14 wagons end-to-end in an oval configuration.

Two men were killed and 12 seriously wounded. Tall Bull died, reportedly killed by Buffalo Bill Cody. January 23, — Marias Massacre — White Americans kill Piegans, mainly women, children, and the elderly in Montana. April 30, — Camp Grant Massacre — A mob of angry citizens from Tucson and their Papago Indian mercenaries clubbed, shot, raped, and mutilated Aravaipa Apache people, mostly women, and children near Camp Grant.

Major General Edward Canby was killed during a peace conference—the only general to be killed during the Indian Wars. Captain Jack was hanged for the killing. Army won its most striking victory in the long history of Apache warfare at this site in Arizona. About 75 Indians died, and most of the rest were captured.

March 27, — Battle of Turret Peak — Fought in south-central Arizona, it was one of the pivotal fights that broke the backs of the Apache and Yavapai in their efforts to resist white encroachment into their lands. Sherman led a campaign of more than 14 battles against the Arapaho , Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa tribes, who eventually surrendered.

The hunters held the site, and the Indians retreated, but it soon led to the Red River War. Army forces under Captain Alfred E. Bates reported his losses were four killed and five or six wounded, and 25 Arapaho were killed and wounded. Other reports indicate the Arapaho suffered as few as ten casualties. Mackenzie in Palo Duro Canyon , Texas. Battle of the Little Bighorn by C. American Horse was killed in the ambush.

Military began retaliatory campaigns. Colonel Ranald S. Chief Joseph retreated from the 1st U. Cavalry through Idaho , Yellowstone Park, and Montana after a group of Nez Perce attacked and killed a group of Anglo settlers in early Infantry, 4th U. Artillery, and 1st U. Cavalry engaged the natives of southern Idaho , including the Bannock and Paiute , when the tribes threatened rebellion in , dissatisfied with their land allotments.

September 27, — Battle of Punished Woman Fork — Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf of the Northern Cheyenne led their people in a rebellion and flight from confinement and starvation in Indian Territory to their homelands in the north. A running fight with white settlers occurred. In the end, 17 settlers were killed in the ambush.

Two Chetco who tried to resist with bows and arrows were burned alive in their houses. This event led the U. About 70 women and children were taken prisoner. Between 19 to 26 Indians were killed. Massacres continued through the spring and summer of In April , in revenge for the killing of 3 cows and 1 stallion belonging to a white man, California militiamen massacred Indians on the Eel River.

Victims were mostly women, children and elders, as reported by Bret Harte at Arcata newspaper. Other villages massacred within two days. Some 40, white settlers fled their homes on the frontier.

They killed of Tonkawa, leaving only survivors. Monteith in a valley west of Prescott, Arizona Arizona. The place was named Skull Valley after the heads of the dead Indians left unburied. One soldier was slightly wounded during the attack.

One man survived and alerted the Oregon militia who buried the bodies. The others 3 men and 7 women had their throats cut. General Custer was an after-the-fact witness at the scene. Cavalry attacked a village of sleeping Cheyenne led by Black Kettle. Other casualty estimates by cavalry members, scouts and Indians vary widely, with the number of men killed ranging as low as 11 and the numbers of women and children ranging as high as Before returning to their base, the cavalry killed several hundred Indian ponies and burned the village.

It is estimated that this massacre left only 15 members of the Yahi tribe alive April 30 Camp Grant Massacre Led by the ex-Mayor of Tucson, William Oury, eight Americans, 48 Mexicans and more than allied Pima attacked Apache men, women and children at Camp Grant, Arizona Territory killing , with 1 survivor at scene and 29 children sold to slavery.

All but eight of the dead were Apache women or children. They killed 89 men, women and children before being repulsed by the Indians.

Army forces hunted them down, killing 77 of them. The remains of those killed were repatriated in They also attacked a military unit, killing 13 and wounding Peter, Henderson and Glencoe have been burned. A private letter received in this city, to-day, from St. Paul, dated the 20th instant, says, that it seems to be the general opinion among the best informed of our citizens that these Indian troubles originated with the cursed Secessionists of Missouri.

We can hold this position but little longer unless we are reinforced. We are being attacked almost every hour, and unless assistance is rendered us we cannot hold out much longer.

Our little band is becoming exhausted and decimated. We had hoped to be reinforced to-day, but as yet can hear of no one coming. SIBLEY cannot reach here with his twelve hundred troops until to-morrow, when a day of reckoning for the Indians will be at hand.

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