| U.S.Cavalry, Indians
U.S. Cavalry, Indians were from two walks of life and two very culturally different nations. Broken treaties and misunderstandings led to a period of western history that had its share of heroes and villains on both sides. Indian Battles
Indians
Chief Joseph Indian Chief of the Lower Nez Perces
Cochise Chiricahua Apache Indian Tribe Chief
Crazy Horse Oglala Sioux Indian Tribe Chief
Geronimo Mimbreno Apache Indian Tribe Chief
Red Cloud Oglala Sioux Warrior Indian Tribe Chief
Sacajawea Born Shoshone Indian, Kidnapped By Minnetares Indians and Hidatsa Indians
Sitting Bull a Sioux Indian nominated to be a Hunkpapa Indian Chief
Wovoka Jack Wilson A Paiute Mystic Indian
Cavalry that invaded the West?
Benjamin Bonneville Graduate West Point Cavalry Career Officer
William Frederick Cody Cavalry Army Scout
George Armstrong Custer Cavalry Officer 7th Cavalry Regiment, Indian Territories
Nathan Meeker Indian Agent on the White River Ute Indian Reservation
Zebulon Pike Founder Pikes Peak Military Man and Explorer
Isaac Stevens Congressman for fair Indian treaties and reining in the brutal Cavalry
Marcus Whitman Physician, Protestant, Missionary caring for the Indians
Other notables:
Army Scouts
Buffalo Hunters Indians Hunted Buffalo Numbering 60 Million
Forts Indians Hated the Symbolism of Forts the Cavalry called them Home
Lewis and Clark Expedition was Guided by a Shoshone Indian named Sacajawea
Mule Skinners and Freight Wagons The Heavy Freighters of the West
Santa Anna Remember The Alamo
Steamboats Along the muddy Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers
Trading Posts The Center of Commerce for Pioneers, settlers, trappers, cavalry And Indians
Cavalry, Indian Battles:
Battle of the Little Big Horn Fifteen Thousand Indians destroy George Armstrong Custer
Wounded Knee Massacre Cavalry Hotchkiss guns raining fragmentation shells at a combined rate of 200 or more rounds a minute. Killed 300 unarmed Indians |
