Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the conflict with the Plains Indians in the years 1862-64. • Little Crow • Colonel Chivington +your own info Flashcards
By 1862 the Dakota Sioux tribe, led by Little Crow, was facing starvation due to failed crops and the
compensation they had been promised by the government had not arrived.
• Little Crow led an attack on both the Agency responsible for running the reservation (August 1862)
and a group of 45 US army soldiers, which ended in defeat.
• Black Kettle, the chief of the Cheyenne, started attacking wagon trains in order to seize food for
starving Indians on the Sand Creek reservation in Colorado.
• Following three years of attacks, the government and army commanders reached an agreement to
protect the travellers and a camp was set up at Sand Creek, which Black Kettle believed was under
US army protection.
• In November 1864, Colonel Chivington led a dawn raid on Sand Creek and massacred approximately
150 men, women and children.
• News of the Sand Creek massacre was carried by Black Kettle to other tribes increasing attacks on
white settlers, so the conflict had still not been resolved by the end of 1864.
