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Battle at Sappa Creek, the Glossary

The Battle of Sappa Creek, or Massacre at Cheyenne Hole, was fought on April 23, 1875, between Company H of the Sixth United States Cavalry under the command of Second Lieutenant Austin Henely and a group of Cheyenne Indians led by Little Bull.^[1]

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1875 in the United States
Battles involving the Cheyenne
Conflicts in 1875

Abuse

Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a person or thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.

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Adobe Walls, Texas

Adobe Walls is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, northeast of Stinnett, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication, also known in overdose as alcohol poisoning, commonly described as drunkenness or inebriation, is the behavior and physical effects caused by a recent consumption of alcohol.

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808July 31, 1875) was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869.

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Annuity

In investment, an annuity is a series of payments made at equal intervals.

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Arapaho

The Arapaho (Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

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Attorney general

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (attorneys general) or attorney-general (AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government.

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Bison hunting

Bison hunting (hunting of the American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo) was an activity fundamental to the economy and society of the Plains Indians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of North America, before the animal's near-extinction in the late 19th century following US expansion into the West.

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Black Kettle

Black Kettle (Cheyenne: Mo'ohtavetoo'o) (November 27, 1868) was a leader of the Southern Cheyenne during the American Indian Wars.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).

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Board of Indian Commissioners

The Board of Indian Commissioners was a committee that advised the federal government of the United States on Native American policy and inspected supplies delivered to Indian agencies to ensure the fulfillment of government treaty obligations.

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Brinton Darlington

Brinton Darlington (December 3, 1804– May 1, 1872) was an American Indian agent at the Darlington Agency for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

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Canadian River

The Canadian River is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River in the United States.

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Carbine

A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length.

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Cherokee Outlet

The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Cheyenne Autumn (book)

Cheyenne Autumn is a 1953 non-fiction book by Mari Sandoz.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cimarron River (Arkansas River tributary)

The Cimarron River (script or script, meaning 'Salt River'; Hotóao'hé'e) extends across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States.

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Comet

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

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Council of Forty-four

The Council of Forty-four is one of the two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne Native American tribal governance, the other being the military societies such as the Dog Soldiers.

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Darlington Agency

The Darlington Agency was an Indian agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation prior to statehood in present-day Canadian County, Oklahoma.

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Dodge City, Kansas

Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States.

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Dog Soldiers

The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men (Cheyenne: Hotamétaneo'o) are historically one of six Cheyenne military societies.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fort Lyon

Fort Lyon was composed of two 19th-century military fort complexes in southeastern Colorado.

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Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.

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Fort Supply (Oklahoma)

Fort Supply (originally Camp Supply) was a United States Army post established on November 18, 1868, in Indian Territory to protect the Southern Plains.

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Fort Wallace

Fort Wallace (1865–1882) was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids and protect the stages.

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Frank Baldwin

Frank Dwight Baldwin (June 26, 1842 – April 22, 1923), a resident of Constantine, Michigan, and born in Manchester, Michigan, is one of only 19 servicemen to receive the Medal of Honor twice.

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George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Homer W. Wheeler

Homer W. Wheeler (May 13, 1848 – April 11, 1930) was an American military officer and author.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.

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Indian Peace Commission

The Indian Peace Commission (also the Sherman, Taylor, or Great Peace Commission) was a group formed by an act of Congress on July 20, 1867 "to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes." It was composed of four civilians and three, later four, military leaders.

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Isatai'i

Isatai'i, also known as Isatai, or Eschiti (Isa Tai'i,; c. 1840 – 1916) was a Comanche warrior and medicine man of the Kwaharʉ band.

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John B. Henderson

John Brooks Henderson (November 16, 1826April 12, 1913) was an American attorney and politician who represented Missouri in the United States Senate from 1862 to 1869.

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John Pope (general)

John Pope (March 16, 1822 – September 23, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kiowa

Kiowa or Cáuigú) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

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Little Arkansas Treaty

The Little Arkansas Treaty was a set of treaties signed between the United States of America and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho at Little Arkansas River, Kansas in October 1865.

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Marcus Robbins

Marcus Morton Robbins (July 25, 1851 – June 21, 1924) served in the United States Army during the American Indian Wars.

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Mari Sandoz

Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher.

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Medicine Arrows

Medicine Arrows (real name Rock Forehead or Stone Forehead) (17951876) was a Cheyenne chief and Keeper of the Medicine Arrows from 1850 until his death.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Parley

A parley (from parler – "to speak") is a discussion or conference, especially one designed to end an argument or hostilities between two groups of people.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Pistol

A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a barrel with an integral chamber.

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Platte River

The Platte River is a major American river, in the state of Nebraska.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Rawlins County, Kansas

Rawlins County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Red River War

The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes from the Southern Plains, and forcibly relocate the tribes to reservations in Indian Territory.

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Sand Creek massacre

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 under the command of U.S.

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Sappa Creek

Sappa Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America.

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Second Battle of Adobe Walls

The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874, between Comanche forces and a group of 28 Texan bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Smoky Hill River

The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through Colorado and Kansas.

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Tall Bull

Tall Bull (c. 1830 - July 11, 1869) (Hotóa'ôxháa'êstaestse) was a chief of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.

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Texas panhandle

The Texas panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state.

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Treaty

A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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United States Secretary of War

The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.

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War bonnet

dog soldier wearing a feathered headdress during a pow wow at the Indian Summer festival in Henry Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2008 War bonnets (also called warbonnets or headdresses) are feathered headgear traditionally worn by male leaders of the American Plains Indians Nations who have earned a place of great respect in their tribe.

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References

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1875 in the United States

Battles involving the Cheyenne

Conflicts in 1875

References