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01/29/1863 |
Union Volunteer troops attack and kill hundreds of Shoshone at Bear River, in present-day Idaho |
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06/08/1863 |
Young volunteer officer killed in clash with Sioux Indian raiders in central Minnesota |
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06/10/1863 |
Warriors of the Southern Ute tribe ambush mail coach in Utah, kill two |
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06/16/1863 |
In Minnesota, General H.H. Sibley and more than three thousand troops march against the Santee Sioux |
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07/20/1863 |
In Minnesota, General H.H. Sibley and his men finally closes the pursuit of the Santee Sioux |
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07/24/1863 |
In Dakota Territory, General H.H. Sibley and his men finally meet the Santee Sioux in the Battle of Big Mound |
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07/26/1863 |
In Dakota Territory, near Dead Buffalo Lake, Lakota Sioux strike at the pursuing U.S. Army but are driven off |
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07/28/1863 |
In Dakota Territory, at Stony Lake, Lakota and Santee Sioux fight covering action to protect retreat of their families |
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07/29/1863 |
Near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota, Sioux Indians intercept and kill General Sibley's aide as he delivers messages |
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07/31/1863 |
In Dakota Territory, General Sibley declines to cross the Missouri and ends his campaign to punish the Sioux |
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08/08/1864 |
At Plum Creek in Nebraska, Cheyenne Indians attack and wipe out a sizable wagon train carrying freight, killing eleven |
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11/29/1864 |
At Sand Creek in Colorado, territorial volunteers attack encamped Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing hundreds |
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07/25/1865 to 07/26/1865 |
In Wyoming, a thousand Cheyenne warriors attack the immigrant transport link at Platte Bridge |
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08/29/1865 |
In Wyoming, U.S. troops scatter a large Arapaho village on the Tongue River |
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02/22/1866 |
In western Oregon, U.S. infantry storm a Shoshone village near present day Jordan Creek |
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06/17/1866 |
The United States Army begins its incursion into Native-American territory along the Bozeman Trail. |
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09/21/1866 |
In Kansas, a new U.S. cavalry regiment, the Seventh, begins its formation at Fort Riley. |
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12/21/1866 |
Sioux and Cheyenne warriors wipe out 81 U.S. Army soldiers near Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. |
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02/23/1867 |
At the White House, President Johnson meets with a delegation representing Sioux tribes. |
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04/07/1867 |
General W.S. Hancock arrives in force at Fort Larned to negotiate with Kansas native American tribes. |
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04/12/1867 |
General W.S. Hancock negotiates with Cheyenne and Sioux leaders near Fort Larned, Kansas |
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04/19/1867 |
General W.S. Hancock burns the large abandoned Cheyenne and Sioux village near Fort Larned, Kansas |
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04/23/1867 |
General Hancock meets with Kiowa tribal leaders near Fort Dodge, Kansas. |
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06/08/1867 |
On campaign in western Kansas, the Seventh Cavalry's second in command commits suicide. |
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06/16/1867 |
Hostile Cheyenne attack settlers in Kansas, killing one. |
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06/16/1867 |
Hostile Kiowa warriors attack a wagon train at Cimarron Crossing, Kansas, killing three. |
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06/24/1867 |
George Armstrong Custer has his first encounter with Plains Indians in eastern Nebraska. |
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06/26/1867 |
The Seventh Cavalry fight a heavy skirmish near Fort Wallace, Kansas with Cheyenne and Sioux warriors. |
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06/27/1867 |
Sioux and Cheyenne warriors attack a railroad camp in western Kansas, killing one. |
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06/29/1867 |
In Kansas, Cheyenne and Lakota warriors wipe out a U.S. Army detail of twelve men. |
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07/07/1867 |
On campaign in western Kansas, Custer's Seventh Cavalry suffers a rash of desertions. |
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07/12/1867 |
In Kansas, Seventh Cavalry scouts find the bodies of Lieutenant Kidder's patrol killed two weeks before. |
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07/20/1867 |
The U.S. Congress authorizes an Indian Peace Commission to negotiate with hostile Plains Indian tribes. |
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08/06/1867 |
The Indian Peace Commission, newly appointed to negotiate with hostile Plains Indian tribes, organizes in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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08/19/1867 |
The Indian Peace Commission meets with Sioux tribal leaders near Fort Thompson in South Dakota. |
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10/21/1867 |
In Kansas, negotiations at Medicine Lodge River result in two peace treaties Plains tribes. |
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10/28/1867 |
At Medicine Lodge River in Kansas, a third peace treaty is signed, this with the Cheyenne and Arapaho. |
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11/25/1867 |
At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, George Custer is suspended from the Army for absence without leave. |
