Conflict on the Frontier
A strongly constructed building used to house soldiers and weapons.
What is a fort?
Land that had been set aside for American Indians in 1830.
What is the Indian Territory?
Five forts.
What is the amount of United States Army forts that sent troops toward the sites of the battles?
The fight between United States soldiers and Plains Indians in 1874-1875.
What is the Red River War?
June 2, 1875
What is the day that the Red River War ended?
African American soldiers who fought against the Plains Indians.
What is the Buffalo Soldiers?
The Comanche and Kiowa people had to move to a large reservation.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
Supplies promised to the Indians by the Unite States government did not come.
What are the problems faced by the Plains Indians who signed the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
The soldiers' guns shot farther than the American Indians' guns.
What is the difference between the weapons of the soldiers and the American Indians?
The region was opened to white settlers who brought in cattle and sheep.
What is what happened to the Texas plains once the Plains Indians had been forced to leave?
This brought more Anglo Americans to Texas.
What is the Railroad?
For food, clothing, shelter as well as for trading for supplies.
What are reasons the Plain Indians killed Buffalos?
Quanah, a Comanche Chief.
What is who led the Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa in the attack of the Second Battle of Adobe Walls?
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie
What is who was the commander of the United States soldiers in 1874?
To show respect to his white mother.
What is why did Chief Quanah later go by Quanah Parker?
Forever changing the way of life of the American Indians.
What is American Indians forced off of the land and onto reservations?
To defeat the Plains Indians and move them to reservations.
What are the reasons the United States Army killed Buffalos?
American Indians and United States soldiers had fought at the same place a few years before.
What was why was the battle known as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls?
On foot.
What is how did most of the Plains Indians escape Palo Duro Canyon?
Having traveled around the eastern United States Quanah Parker realized that American Indian children needed an education.
What is why Quanah Parker encouraged Plains Indians to start schools?
More battles occurred after _________ were sent back to the old forts by the government.
What is soldiers?
The American Indian chief that did not sign the treaty.
Who is Kiowa leader Satanta?
The Second Battle of Adobe Walls.
What led to the Red River War?
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
What is the battle that marked the end of the Red River War?
The Red River War ended.
What is what happened when Chief Quanah surrendered to Colonel Mackenzie?