Native American Settlers

But blame could be place at others feet as philbrick shows that Reno had a chance to over run the village in first part of the attack. But didn't. Philbrick attributes to the fact that Reno was drunk. Philbrick show how very easy to see how Custer could have won the battle, as Custer tried to capture the Indian children and women to use as hostages. “Hindsight makes Custer look like an egomaniacal fool.

Custer split his troops into three groups, with Captain Frederick Benteen going south, Major Reno crossing the Little Bighorn River to attack, and Custer’s troops would head North up stream. Custer decided to attack, and he was very quickly surrounded, resulting in all of his troops being killed, including him. The Battle of Little Bighorn was an embarrassing loss for the United States. This loss caused the government to strengthen the army which led them to a defeat of the Lakota Indians. Americans had a hard time believing that Custer, a great general, would have been killed by a group of Indians.

However, Chief Sitting Bull had attracted many more tribes from throughout the region, based on his leadership and resistance to adhering to the terms imposed by the Treaty of Fort Laramie. During the annual Sun Dance ceremony, which took place in southeast Montana the numbers swelled, up to 8,000 people and 1,800 warriors. Two weeks later the camp had moved south and settled on the banks of the Little Bighorn river which was fertile hunting ground. It was now mid-June of 1876 and the column moving east from the Dakota territory was also in the southeast of the Montana territory. At this time, Major General Terry had decided to detach the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col George Custer from the formation.

In 1855 the Nez Perce signed a treaty with the United States concerning what land was theirs. In the Treaty, the United States gave the Nez Perce about 7.7 million acres for

Sitting Bull Champion of the Sioux: A Biography, by Stanley Vestal, is a great book to read for anyone wanting vivid, yet serious, insight of the lives of the Sioux Indians, or more specifically, one Sioux Indian, Sitting Bull. There are three sections in the book that describe three major time periods of Sitting Bull’s life. Each section focuses on a different time span. The author highly exceeds his goal of “writing the first biography of a great American Indian soldier and statesman in which his character and achievements are presented with the same care and seriousness they would have received had he been of European ancestry.” (xxi)

My group read a Nez Perce legend “When Sweat Lodge Was Human". The Nez Perce tribe was located in Northwest America but now has a 750,000 acre reservation in Idaho. The Nez Perce was a migratory tribe and their diet consisted of such foods as roots, moose, buffalo, elk, salmon, potatoes, carrots, blackberries, elderberries, pine nuts, strawberries, and sunflower seeds. From what I have read and analyzed The Nez Perce Tribe believes that In the beginning of time before humans all the animals met together in a group and had a discussion. This discussion was about the animals and what their roles in wildlife would be.

Albert Einstein once said “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The Nez Perce had something to the same affect for instance, trusting the Europeans with treaties and being let down once then over again. Trading with the Europeans even if they deemed them unsuitable to keep land. In essence, the reason the Nez Perces were led to their demise is because of the continuation of trust between them and the whites who arrived in the Northwest moreover, how the Nez Perces stayed in a relationship with them. A relationship that was full of curiosity, misunderstanding and miscommunication that showed how it slowly went from choice to control for the Nez Perce.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce begged for surrender as his people were dying because of fighting, lack of food, and freezing to death.

The difference in the two accounts is the prelude to the battle. According to Lakota Chief Red Horse, he with many Sioux Indians were only moving across the land in attempts to find a place to settle. When they did settle next to the Little Bighorn River, there were many Native Americans with them ten different tribes and eleven including themselves. The account from the military standpoint was the Sioux, and Cheyenne were hostile over the Black Hills and was corresponding with Sitting Bull. From the event of the Sioux Nation on the move, the U.S. Calvary dispatched three units to attack.

While Cluster was walking along the little bighorn river the Terry/Gibbon column was marching toward the mouth of the little bighorn. Custer planned a surprise attack but he get spotted before he was able to do it. So he decided to attack without anymore waiting. His scouts warned him that the village is very big but he didn 't hear on them. And so he ran into his crushing defeat.

Since Sitting Bull worked to preserve his land he allied with the other tribes to fight against the government. The wars resulted in reservations that are still currently active today.

The treaty the US government signed with the Indians in 1851 granted the Indians to have an extensive territory, which means the Indians can get more land, but eventually that did not last(doc 3,4). One of the most important and well-known wars was the Sand Creek Massacre. On November 29, 1864, John Chivington led 700 troops in an unprovoked attack on the Arapaho and Cheyenne villagers. There they killed over 200 women, children, and older men. US Indian Commissioner admitted that :We have substantially taken possession of the country and deprived the Indians of their accustomed means of support.”

Class, One reason for the defeat of the Plains Indians was the decline of the buffalo herds, due to the killing by white hunters. The buffalo was one of the most sacred things to the Native Americans, but was their main source of supplies, because they used every part of the buffalo to help them. Second are the former Indian lands being settled by homesteaders, because this reduced the ability of tribes to migrate freely through the plains. This also did not allow the Indians to hunt for more buffalo herds. Lastly was the hostile encounter with the US Army which provided a few victories for the Indian population although Sitting Bull and the Indians fought stunning battles such as the defeat of the US Calvary at Little Big Horn, in the end

The plan seemed to be a simple one that required the three units to converge on the Lakota Indians and deal them a definite defeat. Custer and his Seventh Calvary arrived ahead of Gibbon’s unit and little did he know that Crook’s unit was turned back by Crazy Horse and his warriors. Upon Custer’s first initial evaluation, he believed that it was just a small Indian village. Custer split his unit into three divisions and carried out the attack. He was met with thousands of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors that dealt a devastating defeat to George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry.

Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less than respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land, and to achieve this goal, the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history, and the US government made many treatments with the Native Americans, making big changes on the Indian nation. Native Americans wanted to live peacefully with the white men, but the result of treatments and agreements was not quite peaceful. This precedent of mistreatment of minorities began with Andrew Jackson’s indian removal policies to the tribes of Oklahoma (specifically the Cherokee indians) in 1829 because of the lack of respect given to the indians during the removal laws.