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The Darlington Agency was established in 1870 on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation in Indian Territory. Fort Reno was established near the Darlington Agency in 1874, at the insistence of Agent John Miles, to pacify the Arapaho and Cheyenne who had already settled there.
Brinton Darlington (December 3, 1804– May 1, 1872) was an American Indian agent at the Darlington Agency for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. He was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant . Early life and family
Some were rounded up and returned to the Darlington Agency. Most of the Northern Cheyenne remained on the reservation in Indian Territory. By 1883 all who wanted to were permitted to return to the north, where the Tongue River Indian Reservation was established in 1884. [5]
Later, the camp served to protect the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservations, under the Darlington Agency, from incursions by whites. Camp Supply was renamed Fort Supply in 1878 following its role in the Red River War of 1874-1875. By 1880 the Indian Wars on the Southern Plains were nearly over and the fort was in bad repair.
In 1877, the Cheyenne had been forced to relocate from their homelands on the northern Great Plains south to the Darlington Agency on the Southern Cheyenne Reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). In September 1878, in what is called the Northern Cheyenne Exodus , 353 Northern Cheyenne fled north because of poor conditions on the reservation.
Fort Reno began as a temporary camp in July 1874 near the Darlington Agency, which needed protection from an Indian uprising that eventually led to the Red River War.After the conflict ended, the post remained to control and protect the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho reservation, and Fort Reno was established as a permanent fort on July 15, 1874. [3]
They accepted a reservation with the Cheyenne in Indian Territory, so both tribes were forced to remove south near Fort Reno at the Darlington Agency in present-day Oklahoma. [2] The Dawes Act broke up the Cheyenne-Arapaho land base. All land not allotted to individual Indians was opened to settlement in the Land Run of 1892.
In 1872 john DeBras Miles was assigned to the Darlington Agency after the death of Brinton Darlington, there he was in charge of the Cheyenne and Arapaho for twelve years. Agent Miles resigned on March 31, 1884, his replacement was D. B. Dyer. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting in 1884, he served as lawyer for the Cheyenne and Arapaho. [ 6 ]