Texas Indian Wars

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  1. 1. The army originally established a line of frontier ___ between the 1840s-1860's in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Indian raids across settling villages
  2. 5. The ____ wars is the name collectively given to the Indian battles that occurred high in the Texas panhandle plains (so named because of their proximity to the river from which it gets its name)
  3. 9. The battle of ___ was a major, early on surprise attack on a Comanche village in the Panhandle. Many were killed/captured, the village was burned destroying all of the winter stores of food
  4. 11. Once Parker transitioned from the Indian world, he became a highly successful ____
  5. 12. The ____ railine split the great bison herd in two in the year 1869
  6. 13. Usually rougher men who came to the plains of Texas in the 1860's-70's to make a profit off annihilation of great bison herd
  7. 18. Along with the Comanche, this allied tribe was one of the main remaining tribes to put up a "fight-to-the-end" resistance from being assimilated into "civilized culture"
  8. 19. This tribe of Indians served as scouts for the U.S. army in tracking down the Comanche and Kiowa camps
  9. 20. The second battle of __ at a buffalo hunter outpost in the high plains of Texas resulted in Indian defeat against hugely inferior-numbered forces
  10. 22. This buffalo hunter is said to have picked off an Indian atop a mesa from a mile away! ___
  11. 23. General who narrowly missed deadly Kiowa raid at Salt Creek while traveling through Texas on tour
  12. 24. As the federal government tried to end the native hostilities they held a peace treaty for many southern plains tribes in Kansas here ___
  13. 25. Leader of the Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion who assisted MacKenzie during the Texas Indian Wars
  14. 27. Kiowa chief who proudly claimed responsibility for the Salt Creek Raid attack
  15. 28. Once "assimilated" to "civilized" culture, Quannah Parker hosted many celebrities, including then president ___
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  1. 2. Before being removed by General Sheridan, this Texas governor gave a report on the Indian atrocities across Texas between 1865-1867
  2. 3. Geographic region (translated to "Staked Plains") in which the Comanche held deeply embedded hide-outs that were previously untouchable to outsiders due to it's immense vastness and isolation
  3. 4. Places the U.S. government intended to send natives once captured from their homelands
  4. 6. Parker built this large 22 room home to house his 7 wives, their children, and host many celebrity figures
  5. 7. highly prized "war-trophy" Indians (and often white-men) would take from their enemies during/after battle
  6. 8. The battle of ____ is considered to be the final, decisive battle which ushered in the end of the Plains' Indians wild domain
  7. 10. As settlers moved west across Texas, they inevitably began crossing into hostile native territory known as ___
  8. 14. Name the Indians gave their pursuer because he had lost several fingers in battle
  9. 15. This Comanche Shaman (Medicine Man) convinced his chief Quannah Parker and 700 plains Indians that they would receive "medicine" to prevent bullets from harming them
  10. 16. MacKenzie's brother, who had been the land agent that had previously attempted to purchase parts of Mexico for the U.S. prior to the Mexican-American War
  11. 17. MacKenzie had these destroyed after capture to both physically and psychologically cripple the Comanche
  12. 21. hunted down to near extinction for both money as well as psychological and physical destruction of the Plains Tribes
  13. 22. The battle of ___ served as a major gut-check to the Comanches. They realized they were now vulnerable to attack deep within their previously safe domains
  14. 26. Appointed by General Sherman to take care of the Indian "situation" in Texas once and for all