Laramie

In the beginning of this chapter; Sitting Bull and his tribe, the Hunkpapa people, commenced in a sun dance. Black bear, a leader of the Northern Arapahos invited some Southern Arapahos to Tongue River. They set up camp there, and had many hunts and dances. Because of this, many tribes in the Powder River dispersed all over the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills. When Star Chief Connor of the U.S. Military learned that theses various tribes were scattered, he said that the Native American…

We have come to learn over the course of time that American Native Indians still have no clear answer on whether they are considered sovereign or not. The definition of sovereignty is to possess power, and although some Indian Tribes are climbing the ladder in earning this right, there is one reservation imparticularly that is suffering due to the neglect of the US Government. The Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest areas in America and suffers great poverty due to the actions of the…

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What was the westward expansion? Why did the westward expansion happen? Well, there is, not one answer when we expanded westward, but multiple answers. We expanded westward for reasons like gaining more land and take control of the Native Americans. But the two major causes of westward expansion were to gain jobs and explore the land. One cause of westward expansion was to expand the Americas by gaining more land. Evidence shows in document 6 that millions of acres in Nebraska and Iowa…

treaties that the whites seldom stood by. This led to battles and one called the Sand Creek Massacre occurred while the tribe slept and resulted in a horrible massacre of the Indians. A federal peace keeping commission in 1868 enacted the Treaty of Fort Laramie to make up for government mistreatment of the tribes. The treaty admitted U.S. defeat in the Great Sioux War in 1868 and gave the Sioux perpetual land…

Trail. Ft. Casper’s military post evolved from the Mormon Ferry Post and, after the 1,000 foot log bridge crossing North Platte River. The post was named after Casper Collins who was killed while protecting a supply train from an Indian attack. Ft. Laramie was the most significant outpost on the Oregon Trail. It was established as a trading post in 1834 by fur traders William Sublette and Robert Campbell. The U.S. military purchased the Fort in 1849 as a base to protect and supply the growing…

government off the section of the Bozeman Trail from the North Platte River to the gold fields in Montana. This was when the U.S. soldiers were the most unprepared and since the U.S. Government was so unprepared this eventually lead to the "Fort Laramie Treaty". The treaty was official in the year of 1868 the treaty promised gifts, financial incentives, retention of some of their land and a reservation for the people to live on peacefully. Unfortunately the peace did not last long, the gold…

display of force, the American Indian Movement regrouped and joined forces the Oglala traditional leaders and “announced the creation of the Oglala Sioux Nation. The new nation swiftly announced its independence and used the Treaty of Fort Laramie to distinguish…

To eliminate the threat to westward expansion, the United States government created the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, which establish military forts and forced Natives to stay within tribal boundaries. The treaty, one of the first agreements to be made between Plains tribes and the American government, was only agreed upon by some chiefs, but the…

I start my trip from the location of frenzied outfitting activity throughout the 1840s and early 1850s, Independence (Missouri) was the jumping-off point for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails. The town includes several historic buildings, monuments and Independence Spring. As the place of convergence of early routes from the Mississippi Valley, this square was the last significant point of supply until the mid-1840s, when Westport also became an outfitting town. When I visited Independence in 1846,…