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The Great Sioux War refers to a series of conflicts from 1876 to 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes. Following the influx of gold miners to the Black Hills of South Dakota , war broke out when the followers of Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse left their reservations, apparently to go on the war path and defend the ...
The Great Sioux Reservation was an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux, principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska , including all of present ...
A map of the Great Sioux Reservation as established in 1868. "Unceded lands" for Cheyenne and Sioux use were west of the reservation in Montana and Wyoming. The desire of the U.S. government to obtain the Black Hills was the principal cause of the Great Sioux War.
The treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota committed the Dakota to live on a 20-mile (32 km) wide reservation centered on a 150 mile (240 km) stretch of the upper Minnesota River. During the ratification process, however, the U.S. Senate removed Article 3 of each treaty, which had defined the reservations.
[48]: 61, 66 Large war parties of Sioux Indians left their reservation to attack distant Indian enemies near Like-a-Fishhook Village. [12]: 120 [18]: 133 [65]: 112 [x] The first talks of actions against the Sioux arose. In his 1873 report, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advocated, "that those [Sioux] Indians roaming west of the Dakota line ...
Powder River War (1865) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho: Red Cloud's War (1866–68) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho: Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to Native Americans; Creation of the Great Sioux Reservation (including the Black Hills ...
The pipeline travels only half a mile north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and is designed to pass underneath the Missouri River and upstream of the reservation, causing many concerns over the tribe's drinking water safety, environmental protection, and harmful impacts on culture.
The Battle of Cedar Creek (also called Big Dry Creek or Big Dry River) [1] occurred on October 21, 1876, in the Montana Territory between the United States Army and a force of Lakota Sioux Native Americans during the Great Sioux War