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Facts

Also Known As Indian Wars
Date August 19, 1854 - c. 1879
Location Great Plains • United States
Participants Apache • Arapaho • Cheyenne • Comanche • Kickapoo • Kiowa • Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains • Oceti Sakowin • Teton • United States
Context Treaties of Fort Laramie • westward movement

Photos

Black Hills expedition, 1874
Ledger art drawing from the Black Horse Ledger shows Plains Indian figures in traditional dress, a grazing horse, and a group of galloping horses, rendered in colored pencil and ink.
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