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What provoked the U.S.army to attack the Cheyenne and arapaho ?

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In the early 1860s, the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were suffering terrible conditions on their reservation and in 1864 began to retaliate by attacking stagecoaches and settlements along the Oregon Trail.
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