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Colorado Indian Tribes and historic events
DIR By: spitfire
Date: August 1, 2010, 9:55 pm
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Arapaho. The Arapaho hunted and warred over parts of eastern
Colorado.
Bannock. This tribe and the Shoshoni roamed over the extreme
northwestern corner of the State.
Cheyenne. Mostly in the eastern part of the state.
Comanche. Like the Arapaho and Cheyenne, this tribe hunted and
warred in the eastern parts of the State.
Jicarilla. One of the Apache tribes. Though other Apache bands
were known to extend their raids into Colorado, the Jicarilla is
the only one thought to be permanent occupants. Jicarilla women
are known for their basket weaving. Southeastern Colorado
Kiowa. Hunted and warred across parts of eastern Colorado.
Navaho. Lived just south of the Colorado boundary, entering that
State only occasionally
Pueblos.
Shoshoni. Together with the Bannock, the Shoshoni roamed over
the extreme northwestern part of Colorado
Ute. Occupied the entire central and western portions of
Colorado.
Colorado Indian Wars timeline
starting a bit before 1858 as it can offer historic perspective
and RP fodder and important notes of interest ahead of our
roleplay date as we are smack dab in the middle of what
influences major events in the near future.
1851- In the first Treaty of Fort Larami, the Cheyenne and
Arapaho had agreed to accept as their designated hunting grounds
the Eastern Plains between the South Platte and Arkansas Rivers.
The treaty allowed passage by immigrants and the building of
roads and the stationing of troops along the Oregon Trail.
1854- Treaties with Native American groups prove unsatisfactory
which results in conflict as the Utes kill fifteen inhabitants
of Fort Pueblo on Christmas Day.
April 1858 -Small gold discovery by William Green Russell party
at confluence of South Platte River and Cherry Creek ignites a
new gold rush to the center of land legally held by Cheyenne and
Arapahos, under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.
Arapaho chiefs Little Raven and Left Hand establish friendly
relations with the white newcomers on their land.
November 22, 1858 -Kansas Jayhawkers, led by land speculators
William Larimer and Edward Wynkoop, found
Denver City township on Cherry Creek and there was a flood of
European-American migrants across Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.
Cheyennes and Arapahos are neither consulted, nor informed that
the whites have
established another town on Indian land. White settlements open
from Golden City (Golden), Castle Rock, Huntsville
(Larkspur), Colorado City (Colorado Springs) to El Pueblo
(Pueblo) on the Fontaine qui Bouille River (Fountain Creek).
1859 -The Pike's Peak Gold Rush introduced a substantial white
population into the Front Range of the Rockies supported by a
trading lifeline that crossed the central Great Plains.
Advancing settlement following the passage o
f the Homestead Act and the building of the transcontinental
railways following the Civil War further destabilized the
situation p
utting white settlers into direct competition for the land and
resources of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain West.
Initially relations between participants in the Pike's Peak gold
rush and the Native American tribes of the Front Range and the
Platte valley were friendly. An attempt was made to resolve
conflicts by negotiation of the Treaty of Fort Wise which
established a reservation in southeastern Colorado, but the
settlement was not agreed to by all of the roving warriors,
particularly the Dog Soldiers. During the early 1860s tensions
increased and culminated in the Colorado War and the Sand Creek
Massacre where Colorado volunteers fell on a peaceful Cheyenne
village killing women and children which set the stage for
further conflict.
Fall 1860 - Due to pressure on the federal authorities by
Colorado officials to redefine the extent of Indian lands, A.B.
Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, arrived at Bent's New
Fort along the Arkansas River to negotiate a new treaty.
The new reserve, less than one-thirteenth the size of the 1851
reserve, was located in eastern Colorado between the Arkansas
River and Sand Creek. Some bands of Cheyenne, including the Dog
Soldiers, a militaristic band of Cheyenne and Lakota that had
evolved beginning in the 1830s, were angry at the chiefs who had
signed the treaty. They disavowed the treaty and refused to
abide by its constraints. They continued to live and hunt in
the bison-rich lands of eastern Colorado and western Kansas,
becoming increasingly belligerent over the tide of white
migration across their lands.
1862 - The peaceful relationship between settlers and the
Indians of the Colorado and Kansas plains was maintained
faithfully by the tribes, but sentiment grew among the Colorado
settlers for Indian removal. The savagery of the attacks on
civilians during the Dakota War contributed to these sentiments
as did the few minor incidents which occurred in the Platte
Valley and in areas east of Denver. Regular army troops had been
withdrawn for service in the Civil War and were replaced with
the Colorado Volunteers, rough men who often favored
extermination of the Indians. They adopted a policy of shooting
all Indians encountered on sight, a policy which in short time
ignited a general war on the Colorado and Kansas plains, the
Colorado War.
Raids by bands of plains Indians on isolated homesteads to the
east of Denver, on the advancing settlements in Kansas, and on
stage line stations along the South Platte, such as at
Julesburg. and along the Smokey Hill Trail, resulted in settlers
in both Colorado and Kansas adopting a murderous attitude
towards Native Americans, with calls for extermination.
Likewise, the savagery shown by the Colorado Volunteers during
the Sand Creek massacre resulted in Native Americans,
particularly the Dog Soldiers, a band of the Cheyenne, engaging
in savage retribution.
April 1864 - The war was initiated without warning by the
whites, for the purpose of driving the Indians into a
reservation by force, but following minor successes against
small bands of surprised Indians it became a defensive battle
against intense Cheyenne and Arapaho attacks on travelers on the
Overland Trail along the South Platte.
sources:
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www.worldatlas.com
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Re: Colorado Indian Tribes and historic events
DIR By: Eli
Date: August 1, 2010, 10:50 pm
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Great info hun.. thanks!
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