It worked so well the last time this group submitted to strict gun control.......
Firestick of many thunders, invention of evil white man. Great Spirit say get riddum, use only bow & arrow.
But Indian say, me gottum rifles & pickup truck, hunt anytime dam well please. Tellum Great Spirit go climb tall totem pole.
Interesting.
In 1864, the hostile Southern Cheyenne who came in “peacefully” as they did each fall, gave up their guns to the Army, then the army later gave them back. The Indians were camped later at Sand Creek when attacked by Chivinton who believed they were in cahoots with the Confederates. They were.
No one likes to be reminded that Chivington caught TWO CONFEDERATE AGENTS in his attack on the camp.
At the Washita, where the same Cheyenne and Arapaho were NOT CAMPED ON THEIR RESERVATION (located between the Kansas line, Cimarron river and Arkansas river at that time), the government gave the tribes 100 pistols, a similar number of Lancaster rifles, and 15,000 caps to go hunt buffalo.
Some warriors, who had left before the distribution, to attack the Pawnees in Nebraska felt left out so they started attacking farms and ranches throughout Kansas causing the US army to order Custer to hunt them down. He did.