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Captain William J. Fetterman
Captain William J. Fetterman (l. c. 1833-1866), best known for the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands/The Fetterman Massacre in which he and 80 soldiers under his command were killed by the Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance on 21 December 1866...
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The Battling Bugler | What Happened to Corporal Metzger at the Fetterman Fight?
Learn how Adolph Metzger, a young German immigrant, served as a bugler and made an impression on the native warriors in Wyoming. Special thanks goes out to the folks at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in Buffalo, Wyoming for allowing...
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Beaded Shoshone Moccasins
Beaded Shoshone Moccasins from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, USA, c. 1900.
Museum of Man, San Diego, California
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Colonel Henry B. Carrington
Colonel Henry B. Carrington (l. 1824-1912), commander of the garrison of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. Photo by an unknown photographer, 1861. Published in My Army life and the Fort Phil. Kearney massacre, with an account of...
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Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
General William T. Sherman and Commissioners in Council with Sioux Chiefs at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, signing the Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868, ending Red Cloud's War. Native Americans are seated on the ground, commissioners on chairs. Seated...
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Traditional Mongol Hunters
Mongol hunters using traditional weapons as used during the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th century CE.
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Sioux Warrior Rain-in-the-Face (Eastman's Biography)
Rain-in-the-Face (Ite Omagazu, l. c. 1835-1905) was a Lakota Sioux warrior and war chief during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) and at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), after which he became famous as the man who killed Lt. Col. George...
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Native Peoples of North America
The Native Peoples of North America (also known as American Indians, Native Americans, Indigenous Americans, and First Americans) are the original inhabitants of North America believed to have migrated into the region between 40,000-14,000...
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Sioux
The Sioux are a native North American nation who inhabited the Great Plains region of, roughly, modern Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. They are one of the many nations referred to as Plains Indians who...
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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...