Daily Vignette for 25 November -- Powder River Cheyenne village raid

[wcg]

On November 25th 1876, in retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army 4th Cavalry troopers under the command of Colonel Ranald S. MacKenzie sacked Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River

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[emschin]

Our relationships over the years with Native Americans is so sad.