(Bowman‚ 1995‚ 63) Black Kettle Black Kettle (? 1803-1868) was born near the Black Hills in present-day South Dakota. He was recognized as Southern Cheyenne peace chief for his efforts to bring peace to the region. However‚ his attempts at accommodation were not successful‚ and his band was massacred at Sand Creek in 1864. Even though he continued to seek peace‚ he was killed with the remainder of his tribe in the Wichita Valley of Oklahoma in 1868. Red Cloud Red Cloud (1822-1909) was born near
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These points were incorporated in an international accord made at the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles offered numerous ways to create harmony. Nevertheless‚ the U.S. neither joined the League of Nations nor signed the treaty. It was not the influence of the opponent forces of the U.S.‚ conservative or liberal‚ that led to the absolute defeat of the Treaty of Versailles‚ but rather the political unawareness‚ incapability‚ and stubbornness of President Woodrow Wilson
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In this essay the main points of W.W.1 and the Treaty of Versailles will be discussed: The main points in the victory of the Allies in W.W.1‚ an example of this is because they (the Allies) were getting arms from the Americans which gave them an unfair advantage against Germany‚ also what were the aims of the Allies when they made the Treaty of Versailles. They basically didn’t want another world war. Another point about how the Allies were able to defeat Germany was because the Allies had made
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When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told‚ or when the media dares to tamper with history‚ it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the
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government‚ who wanted to take over their lands. Through a series of treaties‚ the United States experienced great success in obtaining these lands that they desired. Two of the tribes affected by this were the Ojibwa and the Lakota. While there are similarities in their experiences‚ there are also many differences. The first treaty negotiated between the United States and the Ojibwa was the treaty of 1837. Prior to this treaty‚ the Fort Crawford meeting mapped out the area where the Ojibwa people were
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the gold fields of Montana. The most famous of these was the Fetterman Massacre of 1866‚ on the bitterly cold morning of December 21; about 2‚000 Indians concealed themselves along the road just north of Fort Phil Kearney. A small band made a diversionary attack on a party of woodcutters from the fort‚ and Commandant Colonel Henry Carrington quickly
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been discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gold was found on Sioux land‚ and this region was considered sacred to the Lakota Sioux Indians. The he land was to be protected and respected by the United States Army‚ because of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 18681‚ but the Army could not keep miners off the Sioux ground‚ which led to the increase of Sioux grievances towards the Americans; some grievances that are still taken offense to today. These battles and negotiations soon were known at
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measures to clear the west for western settlement. The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty‚ signed in Kansas‚ 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government supplies‚ most of the Indians stayed in their reservations. The Northern Plains Indians did not agree so readily. Red Cloud signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868‚ after the government agreed to abandon forts along the Bozeman Trail. Most
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a tipi – the edge lined for sleeping and the middle holding a fire. Tipis were made with hide‚ usually buffalo‚ stretched….The outsides would sometimes have paintings Religious/Ceremonial The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 gave 33 million acres to the Crow‚ but it was reduced in the Fort Laramie Treat of 1868 to 8 million acres. The Crow Reservation is currently located in southcentral Montana‚ its northern border miles south of Billings. It encompasses over 2 million acres‚ some being traditional tribal
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open the Bozeman Trail remained absolute. Colonel Henry Carrington only made it worse by planning to build three forts on the Bozeman without permission from the Native Americans (Sanford Oglala 22). Sioux Natives attended a meeting at Fort Laramie to try to negotiate with the U.S. Army. Native Americans at the peace talk found out about Colonel Carrington’s plans. They did not want forts built on the Bozeman (Drury 244). Even the great chief Red Cloud himself voiced his opinion‚
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