Textualizing the Native Americans


SOME FACTS
c1800: about 600,000 Native Americans (Indians) live in North America
1863: The Long Walk--U.S. Army unit led by Kit Carson forces over 8000
Navajo and Mescalero Apache from their native lands to New Mexico
1864: Sand Creek Massacre--as many as 500 peaceful Cheyenne men, women
and children killed in an attack by Colorado militiamen
1865: Sioux-Cheyenne uprising--attacks by warriors around Forts Rankin, Mitchell and Laramie
1866-1868: War for the Bozeman Trail--fought between the Army and Sioux led by Red Cloud
over treaty-violating attempts to give gold-seekers access to Western Montana
1867 & 1868: Treaties of Medicine Lodge Creek and Fort Laramie--U.S. pledges
to protect and supply Indians who accept re-settlement to designated reservations
1868-1869: fighting continues across the Great Plains as militant Indians raid settlements
and Army units destroy villages
1870: according to U.S. Census, 313,000 Indians live in North America
1871: Congress passes a law stating the U.S. will no longer negotiate with Indians as "nations"


OTHER ACCOUNTS
MT's ACCOUNT


SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS
BEADLE'S DIME NOVEL
BELL'S TRACKS ACROSS AMERICA
WOOD'S UNCIVILIZED RACES
BELDEN'S THE WHITE CHIEF
RICHARDSON'S BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI
ROUGHING IT


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