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The Indian Wars: Little Crow's War (1862), Sand Creek Massacre (1864),…
The Indian Wars: Little Crow's War (1862), Sand Creek Massacre (1864), Red Cloud's War (1865-66) and Great Sioux War (1876-77)
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The Great Sioux War, the Last Major Conflict, had a Lasting Impact on the Sioux
Gold was discovered on the Black Hills of Dakota (on Sioux lands) in 1874. The Fort Laramie Treaty had promised no White Americans would enter Sioux lands. General Custer was sent by the US government - this led to thousands of miners going into the Sioux lands.
Government officials negotiated a treaty to purchase the Black Hills of Dakota for $6 million. Red Cloud and other chiefs agreed to it but other chiefs such as Sitting Bull refused to sign because the site was sacred. President Grant ordered all Sioux and allied Native Americans to return to the reservations by January 1876 but they didn't.
In the spring of 1876, Sitting Bull had a vision that the Native Americans would win a great victory over the whites. On 6th June 1876, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse wiped out an army camp by the Rosebud River. They set up camp on the bank of the Little Bighorn River.
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