Honors 201B Midterm 1

Who was Black Kettle? What happened to him?

Black Kettle was a chief of the Southern Cheyenne people. Chief Black Kettle died at Washita, November 27, 1868, almost four years exactly after the Sand Creek Massacre. Troops of the 7th U.S. Cavalry shot and killed him and Medicine Woman Later as they fled across the Washita River.

Who was George Custer? What happened at Little Bighorn? When did it happen? What happened to Sitting Bull by the end of that year?

was a junior officer serving under that great cavalry officer, Phil Sheridan. On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police officers on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1890