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Indian attacks increased during the...

Civil War because most of the men left...

to fight in the war

company- an organized group or unit of soldiers

Comanches & Kiowas raided the settlers

Indians pushed the frontierline...

eastward miles

Cynthia Ann Parker was captured & raised by Comanches

Quanah Parker became the most powerful Comanche chief

First Battle of Adobe Walls- Kit Carson & a few hundred...

men held off thousands of Indians

After the Civil War, the first soldiers were sent to enforce reconstruction...

-not to protect settlers from Indians

Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek-Some Indians agreed to live...

on the new reservation in Indian territory

Indian territory- Oklahoma

The Indians traded cattle & horses for guns from the traders...

known as Comancheros

buffalo soldiers- black soldiers...

who fought the Indians

video-buffalo soldiers

Henry Flipper- first black man to graduate from West Point

Quakers became the agents on the reservations...

because earlier agents had been dishonest

Kiowas under Satanta attacked..

a wagon train at Salt Creek

After the Salt Creek Raid,...

Gen. Sherman decided...

that the army would need to make war on the Indians

Satanta was sentenced to life in prison...

for the Salt Creek Raid

parole- a monitored release of a prisoner

Col. Mackenzie led the army’s...

war against the Indians

The Texas Rangers also fought the Indians

The buffalo hunters were...

killing all of the buffalo

to survive The Indians needed buffalo to survive

2 nd Battle of Adobe Walls- a few buffalo...

hunters with long-range buffalo guns...

held off hundreds of Indians

Battle of Palo Duro Canyon- Mackenzie...

surprised the Comanches,...

destroyed their supplies,...

& killed their horses

The Comanches were forced to go to the reservations...

1.they had no horses...

2. they had no food, teepees or supplies...

3. most of the buffalo had been killed

4. it was the middle of winter

Buffalo hunters video