Treaties
This is when the Medicine Creek Lodge Treaty took place and where
1867, Kansas
Who were the buffalo soldiers?
Freed slaves who served as soldiers out west
When did the Frontier Wars begin and end in Texas?
1860 - 1875
This is the primary motivation for U.S. Government expansion into Native lands
This is the mother of Quanah Parker
Cynthia Anne Parker
This treaty is where the U.S. Government offered native tribes 3 million acres to move to a reservation
Medicine Creek Lodge treaty
Who gave them their name?
Native Americans who said their hair reminded them of the buffalo and were brave
What was the first major battle of the frontier wars?
First battle of adobe walls
Hired freed slaves to work as soldiers out west
buffalo soldiers
Last chief of the comanches
Quanah Parker
this chief gave a speech denouncing the Medicine Creek lodge treaty
Santanta
Name some of the jobs the buffalo soldiers had?
mapping, scouting, protecting anglo settlements, and building roads
What did the adobe walls use to be?
a trading post
U.S. Government built these to protect anglo settlements
forts
Kit Carson
A frontier scout who led an army of 300 troops to attack the Comanche and Kiowa at the Adobe Walls
Why was it a failure?
U.S. Government did not provide enough supplies to survive off of and the natives didn't want to move there
how were they treated by the anglo settlers?
typically very bad, segregated, 2nd class citizens.
Who fought at the Raid of Salt Creek?
A band of Kiowa led by Santanta against
William T. Sherman
The U.S. Government did this to force the native tribes onto the reservations
Slaughter the buffalo
Santanta
Gave a speech at Medicine Creek Lodge Treaty, arrested at the raid of Salt Creek.
Tribes presented at this Treaty
Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Arapaho, and Cheyenne
Which Reconstruction amendments allowed these former slaves to work as soldiers out west?
All of them but specifically the 13 and 14th amendments
What ended the frontier wars in Texas and where did it take palce?
Red River wars at Palo Duro Canyon
U.S. Government kept their word in these treaties (true or false)
False. oftentimes never bet their end of the agreement.
William T. Sherman
What Civil War figure arrested the leaders of the Raid at Salt Creek, sending them to Fort Richardson for trial?