There was a camp circle. A party of women went out after some wood for the fire. One of them saw a porcupine near a cottonwood tree and informed her companions of the

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Following the Battle of Mud Springs, the large group of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, numbering as many as 5,000 moved leisurely to the North Platte River on February 6, 1865. They crossed the frozen

Also called the Powder River War, this military campaign was ordered by Major General Grenville M. Dodge as a punitive operation against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho for their raiding along the

A decade later, several merchants from Dodge City, Kansas had set up a trading post complex near the ruins of Adobe Walls with the primary purpose of serving and an ever increasing influx of buffalo

In the early 1860's, the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were suffering terrible conditions on their reservation and in 1864 began to retaliate by attacking stagecoaches and settlements along the Oregon

The Grattan Fight marked the beginning of 3½ decades of intermittent warfare on the northern Plains. On a summer afternoon in 1854 a young lieutenant, belligerently seeking to arrest a Sioux Indian

These are sterner, less kindly, less philosophic words than Marcy's, but they keenly outline the duty of the Army on the frontier. We made treaties with the Indians and broke them. In turn men such

Like their counterparts in the north, the Southern Plains tribes' way of life depended definitively upon the buffalo. They used virtually all of the animal for food, tools, shelter, clothing, sacred

The Wind River runs from the alpine lakes of the Continental Divide through the nestled valleys of the northern Rocky Mountains and out onto high, windblown

Sherman Sage (ca. 1844–1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Plains black with buffalo. As a young warrior, Sage

Iron Nation (February 1815—November 14, 1894) was a principal chief of the Lower Brulé

List of informants Introduction: the Arapaho Indians Prenatal period