HY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Greenback Party, Pullman Company, Mark Hanna
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In the west, soldiers spread cholera, typhoid, and smallpox to the indians. They also reduced the bison population through hunting. The federal government tried to appease the plains indians by signing treaties with the. "chiefs" of various "tribes" at fort laramie in 1851 and at fort atkinson in 1853. The treaties marked the beginning of the reservation system in the west. Indians usually recognized no authority outside their own family; "tribes" and "chiefs" were fictitious names made up by white people. In the 1860s, the government grouped the plains indians into smaller plots of land: mainly the "great sioux reservation" in dakota territory, and the indian territory in oklahoma. At sand creek, colorado in 1864, colonel j. m. chivington"s militia killed 400 innocent. In 1866, a sioux war party attacked and killed captain william j. fetterman"s command of. 81 soldiers and civilians in wyoming"s bighorn mountains.
