The Native American Nation That Forced the US Army to Retreat | History for Sleep

In August 1868, a column of United States soldiers marched south out of the Powder River country. Behind them, before they were out of sight, smoke was rising from the fort they had just abandoned. Tonight, we're going back to the war that ended that way, one that rarely makes it into the story of the American West. This isn't the cavalry-to-the-rescue version, and it isn't the story of a doomed people riding toward their end. It's the story of Red Cloud's War, told from both sides of the stockade wall. On one side, a frozen garrison at Fort Phil Kearny, short of horses, ammunition and firewood. On the other, a coalition of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho at the height of their power, watching the fort from the hills and planning. You'll discover: How the Lakota rose from the woodlands of Minnesota to become the dominant nation of the northern plains Why the Powder River country was worth a war, and who held it before the Lakota How gold in Montana created the Bozeman Trail, and why the Army marched in during a peace council Daily life inside Fort Phil Kearny and in a Lakota winter camp on the Tongue River The Fetterman Fight of December 21, 1866, which the Lakota call the Battle of the Hundred in the Hands The decoys, the ambush, and the young Crazy Horse Portugee Phillips' 236-mile winter ride for help The Hayfield and Wagon Box fights, and why new rifles changed nothing How the railroad, the Peace Commission and a Lakota ultimatum closed the road The abandoned forts burned behind the departing soldiers, and the Treaty of Fort Laramie signed on Lakota terms What happened to that victory: Black Hills gold, the 1980 Supreme Court ruling, and the money still refused today This documentary covers the Lakota (Oglala, Miniconjou and Brulé), the Northern Cheyenne, the Northern Arapaho and the Crow. It also covers Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, High Backbone, Colonel Henry Carrington, Captain William Fetterman, Fort Phil Kearny, Fort Reno and Fort C.F. Smith. It's told without romanticizing or demonizing either side. Perfect for falling asleep to: over two hours of calm, narrated history about the time a Native American nation won. #NativeAmericanHistory #RedCloud #Lakota #HistoryForSleep #FettermanFight #CrazyHorse #BozemanTrail #IndianWars #WildWestHistory #FortLaramie #HistoryDocumentary #SleepDocumentary #AmericanHistory #PlainsIndians