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Native Americans Battles and Encounters with the Army

By cshively39

  • The Sand Creek Massacre

    The Sand Creek Massacre
    This was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the United States Army. Roughly over 500 Native Americans were killed by the Third Colorado Calvary.

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    Battle of Little Big Horn
    The United States Army lead by General Custer were defeated by the Sioux chief Sitting Bull and his warriors. This one was of the biggest defeats in US Army history.

  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee
    The massacre at Wounded Knee, during which soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers.