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Native History: Custer Attacks Peaceful Cheyenne in Oklahoma
Alysa Landry - 11/27/13 - http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/11/27/native-history-custer-attacks-peaceful-cheyenne-oklahoma-152416
The surprise attack, known as the Battle of the Washita River, is hailed as one of the first substantial American victories in the wars against the Southern Plains Indians.
Prior to this, the Southern Plains Indiansthe Cheyenne and Arapaho, the Kiowa and Comanchethey were running circles around the Army, said Joel Shockley, a park guide at Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. At the time, the Cheyenne and Arapaho were known as the fiercest Indians in the area.
Custer, touted as a Civil War hero, had been suspended for one year after being convicted of desertion and mistreatment of soldiers. Ten months into this punishment, he was reinstated to lead a campaign against Cheyenne Indians who had raided settlements in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Custer and 150 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked at dawn on November 27, after marching all night, said Shockley, who is Choctaw and Cherokee. Their target was a camp of about 300 Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle, who almost exactly four years earlier had survived the dawn massacre at Sand Creek, in Colorado.
In his field report, Custer stated that three of his four columns charged as one, and ..........
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countryjake
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(50,983 posts)The American people should be told.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Most people have no clue the War of Independence was fought to enable invading the Indian Nations. The Ohio Co. formed before the war and more War of Independence officers are buried in Marietta Ohio than any other cemetery because they got the best land grants. After the war it was no longer illegal to decimate the Native Nations England had diplomatic relations with. Those nations became the Northwest Territory as the US invasion began after 1776.
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(50,983 posts)I recommend Alan W Eckert's Narratives of America series for a wonderfully fascinating account of the wilderness Northwest territories. I have read them all twice. I wanted to commit the historical events to memory. Unfortunately I have failed in this. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/allan-w-eckert/