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  2. Sand Creek massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...

  3. Northern Cheyenne Exodus - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Cheyenne Exodus, also known as Dull Knife's Raid, [3] the Cheyenne War, [4] or the Cheyenne Campaign, [5] was the attempt of the Northern Cheyenne to return to the north, after being placed on the Southern Cheyenne reservation in the Indian Territory, and the United States Army operations to stop them. The period lasted from 1878 ...

  4. Battle of Julesburg - Wikipedia

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    The Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho had decided to move north to the Black Hills and Powder River Country of South Dakota and Wyoming. En route, from January 28 to Feb 2, the Indians raided ranches and stagecoach stations along 150 miles of the South Platte Valley between what are today the towns of Fort Morgan, Colorado and Paxton, Nebraska .

  5. Colorado War - Wikipedia

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    The Colorado War was an Indian War fought in 1864 and 1865 between the Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, and allied Brulé and Oglala Lakota (or Sioux) peoples versus the U.S. Army, Colorado militia, and white settlers in Colorado Territory and adjacent regions.

  6. List of wars: 1800–1899 - Wikipedia

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    1863 1864 Second Anglo-Ashanti War Ashanti Empire British Empire: 1863 1865 Dominican Restoration War Dominican Republic Spain: 1863 1864 January Uprising Russian Empire: Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth: 1863 1865 Colorado War United States: Cheyenne Arapaho: 1863 1866 Second Taranaki War Part of New Zealand Wars British Empire: Māori ...

  7. List of American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    (1863) Colorado War (1864–65) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Cheyenne Arapaho: Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington; Snake War (1864–68) United States: Snake Indians: Hualapai War (1865–70) Part of the Yavapai Wars United States: Hualapai Yavapai Havasupai: Black Hawk's War (1865–72) Part of the Ute, Apache ...

  8. Red Cloud's War - Wikipedia

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    In 1863, European Americans had blazed the Bozeman Trail through the heart of the traditional territory of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota. [2] It was the shortest and easiest route from Fort Laramie and the Oregon Trail to the Montana gold fields. From 1864 to 1866, the trail was traversed by about 3,500 miners, emigrant settlers and others ...

  9. Powder River Expedition (1865) - Wikipedia

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    The Sand Creek massacre of Cheyenne people on November 29, 1864 intensified Indian reprisals and raids in the Platte River valley. (See Battle of Julesburg) After the raids, several thousand Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho congregated in the Powder River country, remote from white settlements and confirmed as Indian territory in the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.