There Shall We Be Also: Tribal Fractures And Auxiliaries In The Indian Wars Of The Northern Great Plains by Major Jason E. Warner

Author:Major Jason E. Warner [Warner, Major Jason E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786256010
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Publisher: Normanby Press
Published: 2015-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Collapse of the Sioux Alliance: Band First, Tribe Second

“Crazy Horse was a fool and Sitting Bull a coward. ... I ordered them in, but they have disobeyed me and defied my authority.” After a pause, Hump added, “These people are rebels, General, and I want you to send your soldiers and destroy them; I will show the soldiers where to find them.”—Sioux Warrior and Chief Hump in conversation with General Miles.{107}

The actions of the Crow and Pawnee demonstrated the willingness of tribes to form alliances with the enemy of their enemy. However, not just historical tribal enemies became scouts or auxiliaries. Several Sioux and Cheyenne warriors and bands provided support to the US Army. Incidents of Sioux or Northern Cheyenne serving as scouts and auxiliaries remained relatively rare or intermittent in the early 1860-70s. Santee Sioux from Nebraska reservations assisted General Custer in his Black Hills expedition in 1874 in which no significant fighting occurred.{108} The Santee Sioux forced out of Minnesota felt no allegiance or connection with their distance cousins the Lakota Sioux, who controlled the Black Hills.{109} Another account from Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota, in 1873 stated that Sioux scouts from Fort Rice participated in fighting off a raid despite the fact that they were fighting their own people.{110} Incidents such as these remained few or unrecorded prior to 1876. However, following the campaign of 1876-77, the number of Sioux and Cheyenne serving as auxiliaries dramatically increased. This increase resulted from bands surrendering. Surrendered bands needed an alternative way of livelihood and a way to improve their position and status. The 1879 Report of the Secretary of War to the second session of the US Congress referenced numerous times the employment of Sioux and Cheyenne auxiliaries against hostile bands.{111} These Sioux and Cheyenne auxiliaries were a few weeks or months earlier fighting the US Army, but now fought their former tribal allies.

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