-
The Government Trading Act
Established for “carrying on a liberal trade with the several Indian nations, within the limits of the United States.”
-restricted trade exclusively through government agents
-anyone else was subject to fines.
-Its goal was to show that all trade with Indians would be unprofitable and would be a deterrant to white settlers tradng with the Natives
-Also put Native American affairs under the War Department -
U.S. / Cheyenne Friendship Treaty
Marked the beginning of the Cheyenne Tribes relations with the U.S. Government -
Fort Laramie Treaty
U.S. officials met with Native American tribe members at Ft. Laramie
Main Points:
- called for peace and friendship among rival tribes; promised each tribe $50,000 each year for 10 years; recognized the U.S. government's right to establish roads and forts; allowed travel on the Overland Trail in peace;drew line where the indians could hunt and fish; allowed government to withold the money if conditions were not met;
-also seperated Northern and Southern Cheyenne -
Sand Creek Massacre
Colonol John M. Chivington attacked Black Kettle's Cheyenne camp. Over 150 Cheyenne were killed- mainly women. This led to a series of battles. -
Battle of the Washita
-occurred near present Cheyenne in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
The battle where Black Kettle died(see Sand Creek massacre -
Us Outlawed Treaty making with Native Americans
“Because of humanitarian attacks upon the treaty system and the objections of the House of Representatives to the concentration of authority for dealing with the Indians in the hands of the Senate through its treaty-making power, Congress in 1871, in an obscure rider to the Indian appropriation bill, outlawed further treaty making with Indian tribes.”
