Native American Encyclopedia Ross, John To Thanksgiving

Native American Encyclopedia Ross, John To Thanksgiving — page 7
10 Sarcee Sarcee also known as Sarci Sarsi and Tsuu T’ina their own name for themselves lived in the northern plains in Canada’s Alberta province They speak an Athabascan language After getting horses in the early 1800s they lived by hunting bison Seeking protection from their Cree enemies they joined the Blackfoot Confederacy Smallpox a silent enemy killed many as waves of the disease passed through in 1836 and 1870 Hudson’s Bay Company fur traders brought with them a deadly disease called scarlet fever Today Sarcee descendants live on a reserve in Alberta Sayenqueraghta about 1707-1786 became a Seneca war chief in 1751 and later served as a war chief of the Iroquois Confederacy He led warriors against the British at the Battle of Devil’s Hole during Pontiac’s Rebellion In 1765 he along with Handsome Lake and others led warriors against the Choctaw and Cherokee In 1777 the Iroquois sided with the British in the American Revolution and named Sayenqueraghta and Cornplanter as war chiefs He survived the war and died in New York See also Handsome Lake and Pontiac’s Rebellion Satanta 1820-1878 also known as Set’tainte and White Bear served as a Kiowa war chief In the 1840s many settlers and Santa Fe Trail travelers began invading Kiowa hunting grounds The Kiowa responded by attacking the settlers and wagon trains In 1867 Satanta signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty When U S treaty promises did not appear Satanta led the Salt Creek Prairie raid and went to prison After more attacks on nonnatives Satanta again received jail time After four years in prison he took his own life See also Medicine Lodge Treaty and Salt Creek Prairie Scalping or cutting off the skin and hair from a downed enemy’s head sometimes occurred during battles as a way of collecting a trophy or proving bravery Some Native American tribes and some frontiersmen practiced scalping In some cases early colonist governments paid money for the scalps of Native Americans Victims usually died but not always Scalp lock refers to a certain hairstyle adopted by some Native American men where the head is shaved except for a single section of hair on top Lenni Lenape and other tribes in the Northeast Culture Area practiced this tradition Some warriors also took scalp locks from