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Essay

The Development of the West

In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate...

Glossary Term – Event

Battle of Little Bighorn

In the war against western Sioux, General George Custer and more than two hundred of his men died along Montana’s Little Bighorn River at the hands of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.

Glossary Term – Person

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse (1849–1877) was a Lakota leader who battled white settlement in the Black Hills of Dakota. In 1876, Crazy Horse fought at Little Bighorn, the battle initiated by American Lieutenant Colonel George Custer. In 1877, he was killed while resisting capture and imprisonment.

Glossary Term – Person

Sitting Bull

Teaching Resource

June 25, 1876: An Interpretation of an Historical Event

Essential Question

How should events from the Indian Wars be commemorated by the federal government?

Background 

The Battle of Little Bighorn was one in a series of conflicts that occurred during the American attempt to remove native tribes from the West. Between 1850 and 1890, the United States military subdued numerous tribes through a concerted effort to destroy the buffalo and disrupt hunting patterns. The battle along the Big Horn River emerged from transgressions of...

Teaching Resource

Nineteenth-Century Native American Viewpoints

Objective Identify and compare the ideas of major Native American leaders from the nineteenth century. Evaluate the impact of those ideas on the United States and Native Americans. Locate the original and final reservation territory for each of the Native American tribal groups represented in the excerpts. Materials Documents (Shawnee) Chief Tecumseh, “Address to General William Henry...