Fetterman+Massacre+RR

=Fetterman Massacre=

Important People
Red Cloud, W.J. Fetterman, Ten Eyck, Sioux warriors,

When,
June 1866 settled at hunting grounds. December 21,1866 the day the fetterman massacre started and ended. Oglala Sioux tribe attacked Sioux warriors.

Where,
Montana, Army base, [|Fort Laramie] Bozeman Trail Bighorn mountains



What Happen
 On 21st December, 1866, Captain [|W. J. Fetterman] and an army column of 80 men, were involved in protecting a team taking wood to Fort Phil Kearny. Although under orders not to "engage or pursue Indians" Fetterman gave the orders to attack a group of Sioux warriors. The warriors ran away and drew the soldiers into a clearing surrounded by a much larger force. All the soldiers were killed in what became known as the Fetterman Massacre. Later that day the stripped and mutilated bodies of the soldiers were found by a patrol led by Captain Ten Eyck.

Why,
June 1866, [|Red Cloud], chief of the [|Oglala Sioux], began negotiating with the army based at [|Fort Laramie] about the decision to allow emigrants to settle on the last of the great Sioux hunting grounds. When he was unable to reach agreement with the army negotiators he resorted to sending out war parties that attacked emigrants and army patrols. These hit and run tactics were difficult for the army to deal with and be the time they arrived on the scene of the attack the war parties had disappeared.

How it effect society,
Prior to the opening of the Bozeman Trail in 1864, the United States, and white society in general, had at most an indirect effect upon the Crow people. Remote from previously established emigrant trails and occupying lands not yet exposed to settlement, the Crows' main contacts with whites had been sporadic, limited largely to fur traders, explorers, and occasional military expeditions. 1 Creation of the Bozeman Trail through lands the Crows considered theirs and the ensuing conflict between the United States and the Lakota Sioux and their allies marked a watershed for the Crow

Web sites,
[|http://home.comcast.net/~theangle/RedCloud/fetterman.htm] http://www.essortment.com/all/fettermanmassa_rfkt.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWfettermanM.htm