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POWDER RIVER INVASION

CHAPTER 5. POWDER RIVER INVASION. POWDER RIVER INVASION. Following Platte River Bridge Station- Sioux moved North for Sun Dance Ceremony Cheyenne remained on Powder for Sacred Arrow Ceremony. POWDER RIVER INVASION. Army coming from all four directions- Gen. Patrick Connor led 3 columns

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POWDER RIVER INVASION

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  1. CHAPTER 5 POWDER RIVER INVASION

  2. POWDER RIVER INVASION • Following Platte River Bridge Station- • Sioux moved North for Sun Dance Ceremony • Cheyenne remained on Powder for Sacred Arrow Ceremony

  3. POWDER RIVER INVASION • Army coming from all four directions- • Gen. Patrick Connor led 3 columns • In 1863, Connor had led slaughter of 278 Paiutes on the Bear River • In July 1865, announced Platte River Indians needed to “be hunted like wolves” • Columns of soldiers- • Colonel Nelson Cole • March from Nebraska to Dakota Black Hills • Colonel Samuel Walker • From Ft Laramie to Black Hills to join Cole • General Conner • Northwest on Bozeman Trail to Montana

  4. POWDER RIVER INVASION Col. Samuel Walker, Ft Laramie Col. Nelson Cole, Nebraska Gen. Patrick Connor, Platte Route

  5. POWDER RIVER INVASION Gen. Connor hoped to trap Indians between himself and combined forces of Cole and Walker • Fourth column led by a civilian, James Sawyers- • Leading miners east to Montana gold fields • Knew it was illegal • Paid two companies of infantry for protection

  6. POWDER RIVER INVASION • A stalemate ensued- • Indians raised white flag and offered peace • Bent brothers acted as interpreters for Red Cloud and Dull Knife • Indians would fight whites until Chivington was hanged

  7. POWDER RIVER INVASION • Wagon train told to go North- • Go to Bighorn Mountains to avoid Indian land • Sawyer wanted to stay on Powder River • Gen. Connor building a fort in area • Indians knew nothing of fort being built in heart of hunting grounds • Wagon train finally allowed to pass- • Exchanged a wagon of goods

  8. POWDER RIVER INVASION

  9. POWDER RIVER INVASION • After completing Fort Connor- • Connor went looking for Indians • Came upon Black Bear’s Arapaho camp • On Tongue River • Dismissed reports of soldiers in the area • Connor launched attack- • Arapaho fled up Wolf Creek • Soldiers’ horses tired • Arapaho pushed them back to the village • 50 Arapaho killed • Entire village destroyed

  10. POWDER RIVER INVASION • Skirmishes continued throughout region- • Soldiers undersupplied • No food, ate horses and donkeys • Indians under-armed • Could not fight soldiers with bows, lances, and old guns • Soldiers recalled to Fort Laramie- • A few left behind to guard Fort Connor • Gave Indians false hope • Believed they had and were able to keep whites out of their homeland

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