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Looking for help with a quiz: David(Indiana), Brits and US-folks needed

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Front-Ranger:
I missed this, but at least I gotta picture of Will Rogers, taken at Coit Tower:

BelAir:
looks like Fran was confirmin' while Janice and I were guessin'...
 ;D

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on January 11, 2008, 06:32:59 pm ---1) Which Indian tribe was the only one to win a war against the United States?

a - the Algonquin
b - the Navajo
c - the Sioux

I think the question might refer to the battle of Little Big Horn, thus Sioux might be the correct answer. However, this was a battle, not a whole war. And it was a Pyrric Victory. So, is there anything else they might refer to?

--- End quote ---

In the late 1860s the Sioux under Red Cloud succeeded in getting the U.S. Army to withdraw from the Powder River region of eastern Wyoming, east of the Big Horns, and close the Bozeman Trail to Montana. Maybe that's what this question refers to?

(I made particular note of when we crossed the Powder River on the Road Trip. Here in Pennsylvania we'd call it a creek. ...  ::) )

David In Indy:
Hi Chrissi!

I think Jeff is correct. I know the people of my tribe also often talk about Sitting Bull's war declaration on the white man: " We are an island of Indians in a lake of whites... These soldiers want war. All right, we'll give it to them". Soon after, a force of Sioux and Cheyenne defeated General George Crook and his troops in the battle of the Rosebud (1876) in southern Montana. About a week later Custer led a force against the Indians and neither Custer nor a single soldier in Custer's command survived this battle at the Little Bighorn river.

To my understanding these were a series of uprisings, so I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for. I'll try calling my friend Rodney who is in charge of Circle of the People, a NA group I belong to. Perhaps he will know the answer for certain. :)

Penthesilea:
Thank you Lee  :-* (I remember this pic)

and Jeff  :-* (I should have known you might be another one to ask, besides David. I do know you're historically skilled; and I remember you 'n me talking about Boozeman trail last year proir to the BBQ/WY trip  :))

and David  :-* (no need to call your friend. What you , Janice and Jeff have said is enough verification to me. And it's not an important test for class or anything.)


It's great to have friends around the world. There were also some questions about Australia, and it's cool to think that I just could have asked one of our down under Brokies if I hadn't known the answers myself.
 8)

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