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The Powder River Expedition of 1865 and Regional Clashes
Evaluate the military objectives, conduct, and strategic failures of the U.S. Army's Powder River Expedition against allied Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.
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Historical Causation, Conflicts, and Wyoming Tribal History
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Analyze patterns of historical causation, technological revolutions, nineteenth-century Plains conflicts, and critical events shaping modern Wyoming and Indigenous realities.
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SS12.4.1Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe patterns of change (cause and effect) and evaluate how past events impacted future events and the modern world.
SS12.4.1.aWyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe patterns of change (cause and effect) and evaluate how past events impact current realities for Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming (e.g., migration, evolution of tribal leadership, treaties, Powder River Expedition, Red Cloud's War, Great Sioux War, Battle of Little Bighorn, land cessions, and 1905 Shoshone Reservation Congressional Act).