1. Important Local Events:
Read pages , up to “The Indian Wars Conclude,” answering …
(1) What ideology is reflected in the quote by Horace Greeley?
(2) Summarize events: “1862 in Minnesota” and “Sand Creek” (1864) …
(3) What is mentioned about Captain William Fetterman and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868?

2. Related Events Surrounding the Black Hills
Sand Creek Massacre
(1864)
Led by COL John
Chivington, an estimated
150–500 Cheyenne and
Arapaho, 2/3rds of whom were women and children
Red Cloud’s War ( )
“Fetterman Fight,” CPT Fetterman lost his entire 80-mam detail

3. Bozeman Trail, 1863-1869 Red Cloud’s War (1866-68)
Trails across Powder River Basin …
Gold discovered Montana …
Red Cloud’s War ( )

4. Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868 established …
[1] Great Sioux Reservation of 1868
[2] Shuts down military forts & travel along Bozeman Trail
[3] Rights in Unceded Territory
[4] Mission, school, annuities, tools for farming, etc.
[5] Army will secure Black Hills
[6] ¾ Lakota males had to agree to any cession

5. Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

6. Custer Expedition, 1874

7. Custer Expedition of 1874 Purpose:
To find location of appropriate military base.
Scout location of future railroads.
Confirm presence of gold (Panic of 1873).

9. Custer Expedition, 1874: (1) Summarize, what happened?
(2) Why was this an atypical military expedition?

10. Handout – Custer Expedition
Answer questions, writing down the answers only:
(1) What concepts from our class could we use to describe events contained in the handout?
(2) Summarize, who was taken along on this military expedition, and what was different about this “military expedition?”
(3) Summarize, what happened during the expedition: what did Custer do, where was gold discovered, etc?
(4) What was the response of leaders of our country – President Grant, General Sheridan, to this expedition, and what did they encourage to be done about the “Black Hills issue?”

11. Handout, “Custer Expedition and Black Hills Gold Rush”