Why did the Indians go on the warpath?

1830s Native Americans given the Plains

Cherokee ‘Trail of Tears’

Treaties:Fort Laramie Treaty 1851:• Gave Indian homelands• Promised settlers would not enter• Gave them food, clothing, cattle and equipment for ten, then five

years.Fort Wise Treaty 1861:• Sand Creek Reservation (Colorado) for the Cheyenne. • Land quality was poor.Medicine Creek Treaty 1867:• Cheyenne, Arapahoes, Commanches and Kiowas agreed to give up

land to move to small reservations.Fort Laramie Treaty 1868:• Changed the Sioux territory, it included the Black Hills of Dakota.

Why did the Indians go on the warpath?

Gold Buffalo Disease

Beliefs US Army Washington

Treaties Reservations Starvation

Conditions Infertile Land Cedar Canyon

Why did the Indians go on the warpath?