• The Treaty of Fort Wise of 1861 was a treaty entered into between the United States and six chiefs of the Southern Cheyenne and four of the Southern Arapaho...
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    States settlers. Lean Bear's most notable peace deals include the Treaty of Fort Wise and a meeting with US President Abraham Lincoln. His work towards...
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    negotiate a new treaty. On February 18, 1861, six chiefs of the Southern Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United...
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    the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United States at Bent's New Fort at Big Timbers near what is now Lamar, Colorado. They ceded more than 90 percent of the...
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    Colorado War (category Indian wars of the American Old West)
    extent of Indian treaty lands. On February 18, 1861, six chiefs of the Southern Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the...
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    of the plains and the Utes of the mountains. US negotiations with Black Kettle and other Cheyenne favoring peace resulted in the Treaty of Fort Wise:...
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    after the Treaty of Fort Wise was signed, Cheyenne raiding parties began to attack and burn isolated ranches. Stationed at Fort Wise, a company of American...
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    Fort Lyon was composed of two 19th-century military fort complexes in southeastern Colorado. The initial fort, also called Fort Wise, operated from 1860...
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    Black Kettle (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    commander of Fort Lyon under the Treaty of Fort Wise, believing he could gain protection for his people. The treaty was highly unfavorable to the Southern...
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    and a miller engineer. See Article 5 of the Fort Wise Treaty. A good part of their co-nationals repudiated the treaty, declared the chiefs not empowered...
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  • Araphaoe-Elbert counties, east of Running Creek, and north of the town of Elizabeth. Prior to that, in 1861, the Treaty of Fort Wise was made with American Indian...
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    tribes of the Front Range and the Platte valley were friendly. An attempt was made to resolve conflicts by negotiation of the Treaty of Fort Wise, which...
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    part of early Boulder but rarely pictured. In 1861, Boulder County was created and the Arapaho were forced to relocate per the Treaty of Fort Wise. With...
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  • folly of the peace chiefs' policy of accommodating the whites through the signing of treaties such as the first Treaty of Fort Laramie and the Treaty of Fort...
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  • Little Owl (Arapaho chief) (category Year of birth unknown)
    to participate in discussion and signing of the Fort Wise Treaty. Little Owl was chief of the Long Legs band of the Northern Arapaho people. His relative...
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    Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise which saw the loss of 90% of their land. The refusal of various warriors to recognise the treaty resulted in white...
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  • Stephens Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) Treaty of Fort Wayne (1803) Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) Treaty of Fort Wise Georgia resolutions 1827 were a response...
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    Webster–Ashburton treaty incorporated this change, leaving the half-finished fort on U.S. soil. Following the signing of the treaty, the U.S. resumed...
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    White Antelope (Cheyenne chief) (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    to the 1861 Treaty of Fort Wise that emerged, relegating the Cheyenne to a small reservation. White Antelope later condemned the treaty as a "swindle"...
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    José Guadalupe Gallegos (category People of New Mexico in the American Civil War)
    friendly, mistakenly considering that they were a party to the 1861 Treaty of Fort Wise. Union representatives and Confederates both sought information from...
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  • the fort. It was formally handed over to the British on November 11, 1865 as part of the Treaty of Sinchula. The British reconstructed the fort from...
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    John Wesley Prowers (category Members of the Colorado Territorial Legislature)
    grandson of Daniel Boone and an Indian agent for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, lived 80 miles west of Fort Lyon and helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Wise (later...
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    after the death (in 1680) of Shivaji. In 1713, under a treaty with Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath, Kolaba along with several other forts was given over to Sarkhel...
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    accordance with previous treaties, especially the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768), were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River (modern West...
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    Indians by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the terms of the Fort Wise Treaty of 1861. The fort's service ended as a combination of the tribes' relocation...
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    Mystic massacre – also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort – took place on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, when a force from...
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    Cherokee Commission (category Treaties involving territorial changes)
    in Colorado. The 1861 Treaty of Fort Wise ceded most of the tribal land from the 1851 treaty. In the 1865 Treaty of Little Arkansas, the tribes were...
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    other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 956,709, the 5th-most...
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    written as Viziadurg), the oldest fort on the Sindhudurg coast, was constructed during the regime of Raja Bhoja II of the Shilahar dynasty (construction...
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    Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west...
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