Sand Creek, Red Cloud, Battle Of Little Big Horn
Sand creek massacre:
The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States
that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated
70–163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
red cloud's war:
Red Cloud's War (also referred to as the Bozeman War or the Powder River War) was an armed conflict between the
Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho and the United States in Wyoming and
Montana territories from 1866 to 1868. The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country
in north-central Wyoming.
In 1863, European Americans had blazed the Bozeman Trail through the heart of the traditional territory of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota. It was the shortest and easiest route from Fort Laramie and the Oregon Trail to the Montana gold fields.
Battle of little bighorn:
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne
and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River
in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.