Battle of Washita River
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The <entity_0> (also called <entity_1> or the <entity_5>) occurred on <entity_2> when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s <entity_3> attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne camp on the <entity_6> (the present-day Washita Battlefield National Historic Site near Cheyenne, <entity_7>). After the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, they were — according to the final treaty text as affirmed by Congress — required to move south from present-day Kansas and Colorado to a new reservation in <entity_4> (modern <entity_7>). By early <entity_2>, Black Kettle's camp joined other Southern Cheyenne and other tribal bands at the <entity_6>, which they called Lodgepole River, after local pine trees. Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, with elements of the Fourth Cavalry, emulated the success – and methods – of the <entity_1> in the lead-up to the Red River War at the <entity_8> of North Fork, near McClellan Creek, Texas, in 1872. The episode set the scene of the Washita attack in Colorado instead of <entity_7>, the site of the <entity_8>.
['massacre', 'battle']