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Medicine Lodge Creek
~meeting of government agents & Indian chiefs
~create a 3-million acre reservation in Oklahoma
~U.S. promised to send food & supplies and restrict access to area
~Natives would move to reservation & stop raids
~Some chiefs signed. Others refused to attend meeting
~Quanah Parker and others refused to sign
~Result: some natives refused to leave their land & government did not provide food/supplies
~Buffalo hunters raided reservations so Indians raided white settlements -
A More Aggressive Army Policy
As a result of a raid at Salt Creek, Sherman ordered Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie to move all Native Americans to reservations. Mackenzie led his troops against Native Americans in 1871 and 1872, often fighting and always moving them toward the reservations. These actions reduced the number of raids on the High Plains. He also forced the Kickapoos and Apaches across the Rio Grande into Mexico. -
