what did red cloud and the plains Indians do

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  • arranged to meet the us government Red Cloud decided to fight the white settlers rather than TRUST the government and risk starving to death. fought as they were already building army forts on sioux land
  • Attacked local workers on the trail building the army forts. and soldiers
  • Joined by two other leaders of the Dakota Sioux – SITTING BULL and CRAZY HORSE.
  • It involved 3,000 PLAINS INDIANS fighting against 700 US ARMY SOLDIERS.
  • 21st of December 1866 Red Cloud was able to bring other tribes such as the CHAYENNE to help his war.
  • Later that year, Red Cloud’s Sioux won another victory by stopping any settlers from using the Bozeman Trail.
  • Red Cloud continued to fight on and survived the wars. Died in 1909.
  • the lakouta sioux surrounded fort phil kearny one of the forts on the boseman trail.

    troops could not leave and no travaller could move along the boseman trail