The Battle of Little Big Horn: The Indians Perspective

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Abstract

This research paper tries to explore the concept of “The Battle of little big horn”. It covers the points which leaded to the battle. The research paper aims to describe the war situation and identify the conflict among the Indians and American Government. This Paper describes the aftermath of the war and concludes by describing the situation after the war.

The Battle of Little Big Horn: The Indians Perspective

Introduction

The Battle of the little bighorn is a famous, historic war between the forces of Lakota, American Indians in opposition to the Army of United States seventh cavalry troop. One of the famous fight of this war took place on June 25th and 26th 1876 at the Little Bighorn River at east of Montana Region. The Indian Territory was named as Sioux nation; the nation was dominant compilation of tribes during the nineteenth century, as whites were expanding they pushed these Indians towards the west to settle themselves, and in 1850, the region of American Indian named Sioux was divided in to two pieces due the expansion of whites. The east region of Sioux was near to the great lakes of America, and Western Sioux was in dispute with the government over the ownership of their land. Later on this dispute resulted in the war named Battle of the little big horn. In, 1876 US army was ready for war, and the forces were deployed to the area of Black Hills for the purpose of catching the group of Indians, and compelled them to get back to their area. The American army was led by the Lieutenant Colonel Custer who was in charge for the operations of the war.[] The battle cached fire when Custer was killed on June 25th with his 200 troops due to the besieged attack from the American Indians; this loss shocked the US government and resulted in a war against Sioux.

Discussion

The leaders of Sioux were named Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse who stand firm against the efforts of US government for trapping the American Indian for pushing them away to the east. There were various treaty agreements among US army and Indians, but in 1875 when gold was found at the black hills of South Dakota. All treaty agreements were disregarded by the US army and they attacked the region for occupying the wealth of Black ...