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.
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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
![George Custer, [Report on the Battle of Washita], December 22, 1868 (Gilder Lehr](http://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/04606p1_0.jpg "George Custer, [Report on the Battle of Washita], December 22, 1868 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")
Primary Source
Indian Wars: The Battle of Washita, 1868
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?
BackgroundThe 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...