. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . in his spurs, so among the wild Indian tribesit was thought necessary for a young man to havea string of scalps at his belt in order to have properstanding in his tribe. There were also lawless white men along thefrontier who thought all Indians were causes of 1 1 rrn r • i Indian out- bad. these men oiten committed out- breaksrages which started the Indians on the war path. 74 OKLAHOMA HISTORY When the Civil War was over, many white menwent west and settled upon lands which the In-dians claimed were were built acrossthe p
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . in his spurs, so among the wild Indian tribesit was thought necessary for a young man to havea string of scalps at his belt in order to have properstanding in his tribe. There were also lawless white men along thefrontier who thought all Indians were causes of 1 1 rrn r • i Indian out- bad. these men oiten committed out- breaksrages which started the Indians on the war path. 74 OKLAHOMA HISTORY When the Civil War was over, many white menwent west and settled upon lands which the In-dians claimed were were built acrossthe plains, making it easier toship supplies to the west andto ship hides from the the decade followingthe building of the first rail-road across the plains nearlyall of the buffaloes were were killed simplyfor their hides. Many peopleof the present time would be astonished to knowhow many buffalo hides were handled by onewholesale hide-house in Leavenworth, Kansas,(kning the the Westaroused the (JuANAH Parker, Chief OF THE COMANCHES and killing the buffaloesThey gave the whites agreat deal of trouble from 1867 to 1874. Treatieswere made on the Little Arkansas River, in Kansas,in 1865, which were soon broken. Treaties weremade at Medicine Lodge in 1867, the Indiansagreeing to settle in the western part of IndianTerritor}^ The Kiowas and Comanches, however,broke their agreement by raiding the settlements TROUBLE WITH THE PLALXS INDIANS 75 in Texas, and the Cheyennes and Arapaho(\s alsoviolated tluMrs l)y making forays into Kansas. The Indians would sixmuI the winters at army])osts and agencies whei-e th(^} eoiild draw su])-plies from the Government; then when the grassw^as good and the buffaloes fat, they would maketheir raids. Some of the Indians kept theirtreaties faithfully, but often the whole tribe wasl)lamed for what the treacherous Indians did. One of the most noted Indian raids was thatmade b}^ the Cheyennes into t
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