Three scouts were killed, fourteen women outraged, one man was captured, four women and twenty-four children were carried off. Moore remarked at a meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society that "The total of losses from September 12, 1868, to February 9, 1869, exclusive of casualties incident to military operations, was 158 men murdered, sixteen wounded and forty-one scalped. The warriors killed at least 15 white settlers, wounded others, and were reported to have raped some women, as well as taking others captive to be adopted into their tribes. Among these raids were those along the Solomon and Saline rivers in Kansas, which began August 10, 1868. Months of fragile peace survived raids between warring Kaw Indians and Southern Cheyennes.īut in summer 1868, war parties of Southern Cheyenne and allied Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Northern Cheyenne, Brulé, Oglala, and Pawnee warriors attacked white settlements in western Kansas, southeast Colorado, and northwest Texas. This forced them to give up their traditional territory for one with little arable land and away from buffalo, their main source of meat and a center of their culture. The actual oral accord of the treaty negotiations, however, had guaranteed the Cheyennes their traditional hunting lands as long as there was sufficient buffalo to justify the chase, a crucial treaty stipulation which was tacitly dropped in the subsequent ratification process.
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Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River (the present-day Washita Battlefield National Historic Site near Cheyenne, Oklahoma).
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The Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or the Washita Massacre ) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt.