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Red Roan Cow

George Catlin's depiction of a Knife River Village

         One of the four chiefs sent by the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations to make peace with the Great White Fathers at the Horse Creek Treaty council, in September 1851.  Red Roan Cow, Raven Chief, Gray Prairie Eagle, and Four Bears, travelled more than four hundred miles overland to reach the council.

Related People

  • Thomas Fitzpatrick

  • D.D. Mitchell

  • Jim Bridger

  • Four Bears

  • Louise Holding Eagle

  • Martin Cross

  • George Gillette

Related Events

  • 1845 - 1906 Manifest Destiny

  • 1851 - Treaty Council at Horse Creek

  • 1852 - U.S. Senate ratifies Horse Creek treaty

  • 1853 - Fitzpatrick returns to tribes with amendments

Related Flashpoints

  • 1882 - Assimilation policy

  • 1852 - 1880s Annuity system failures

  • 1400s - Discovery doctrine

  • 1862 - First Homestead Act

  • 1903 - Plenary power

  • 1802 - Jefferson and the Missouri country

  • 1819 - William Clark and the Indians

  • 1845 - Manifest Destiny

  • 1883 - Congress passes Religious Crimes Code

  • 1885 - Congress passes Major Crimes Act

Related Places

  • 1763 - King George III and the frontier

  • 1700s - Indian trade routes across the continent

  • 1787 - David Thompson at Mandan Villages

  • 1819 - Tribal Migrations

  • 1826 - Establishing Indian Territory

  • 1843 - Audubon visits Mandan Villages

  • 1845 - Mandan/Hidatsa establish Like-a-Fishook Village

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