Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ltant cheers of thewhites could be heard the defiant warwhoop of the warriors, who, from thefirst, fought with a desperation and courage which no race of men couldsurpass. At the first onset a number of the Indians rushed through the liius.Many had sought shelter behind logs and trees, and under the banks of thestream which flowed through the centre of the village, and to dislodgethem it was necessary for the cavalry to fight on foot in the Indian style.Slowly but surely the Indians were driven out of these defences, and wereeither shot down or pushed beyond the scene of action. The women andchildren remained within the lodges and became prisoners. The villagewas burned and eight hundred horses slaughtered. One hundred andthree warriors, including the chief, Black Kettle, were killed, and fifty-three women and children captured. For fifteen miles along the Washita, the lodges of the Arapahoes, underLittle Raven, the Kiowas, under Satanta and Lone Wolf, and numerous to O5 te o ft g•0
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INDIAN WARS (1862-1877). 443 bands of Cheyennes, Coinanelies, and Apaclies extended. At the news ofOusters onslaught they collected and attacked him in turn, but were re-pulsed, and at nightfall Custer withdrew. His loss was twenty-one killed,including Major Elliot and Captain Hamilton, and eleven wounded. This was a hard blow, and, according to General Sheridan, it fell uponthe guiltiest of all the bands, that of Black Kettle. It was this hand,says he, uthat without provocation had massacred the settlers on theSaline and Solomon, and perpetrated cruelties too fiendish for recital.()n the other hand, Indian Agent AVynkoop says: I know that BlackKettle had proceeded to the point at which he was killed, with the under-standing that it was the locality where those Indians that were friendlydisposed should assemble. In regard to the charge that Black Kettle wasengaged in the depredations committed on the Saline and Solomon duringthe summer of ls»;s, I know the same to be utterly false, a

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