Indian Wars

General Custer

United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)

Sand Creek Massacre

1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

Red River War (1874-1875)

After skirmishes between the U.S. Army and the Kiowa and Comanche, the U.S. army herded a group of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on the unfriendly groups

Sitting Bull

American Indian chief, he lead the victory of Little Bighorn

Geronimo

Apache leader who fought U.S. soldiers to keep his land. He led a revolt of 4,000 of his people after they were forced to move to a reservation in Arizona.

Apache and Navajo Wars

Geronimo v Colonel Kit Carson. Carson's troops relocate Apache's and Navajo.They fight back. US kill hundreds and destroy homeland. NAvajo move on to reservation in 1865

Kit Carson

Helped open up California, a general in the Civil War, and displacer of Navajo indians

Wounded Knee Massacre

In December 1890, Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp. 300 Sioux men, women, and children were killed

Chief Joseph

Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations

Nez Perce War (1877)

Nez Perce Tribe in Pacific NW refused to give up ancestral land initiating raids on Euro-American settlers and the ultimate flight of the rebelling tribe. Nez Perce tribe and the US Army. 1877. Raids in Pacific NW and skirmishes along the more than 1300 miles in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana through which the tribe fled before being stopped 50 miles from their destination of Canada. Marked the end of 3 centuries of warfare between Indians and Euro-Americans. Confined tribes to reservations resulting in the death of their traditional cultures. Resulted in Americanization

Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, was an engagement between the combined forces of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes against the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army. The most famous of all of the Indian Wars, the remarkable victory for the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne occurred over two days on June 25-26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory. The U.S. cavalry detachment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, lost every soldier in his unit.

US 7th Cavalry

This military unit, lead by Colonel John Forsyth, was responsible for slaughtering nearly 200 Native Americans, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Colonel John Chivington

colonel of the Colorado militia that massacred many Indians at Sand Creek