The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho were assigned a separate reservation to the north.
These were large tracts of land by any standard, but they were only a fraction of the territory these peoples had previously occupied, and the transition to reservation life — if it happened at all — was expected to replace the nomadic buffalo-hunting economy with settled agriculture.
The transition was, in most cases, not happening.
The agents responsible for managing the reservations were inconsistent in the quality of their work and their commitment to their charges.
The promised rations were frequently late, insufficient, spoiled, or outright fraudulent — agents or contractors taking what was owed to the residents and selling it.
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