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= Little Big Horn-Native American = 1.WHO? I n late 1875, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to fight for their lands.

2. WHERE? Little Big Horn took place in Montana, Montana is in the Great Plains of the United States.

3. The battle started in late 1876

4. George Armstrong Custer brought 300 troops and tried to attack the Indians who had 5000 troops,

June 26, 1876 - Custer's last stand came on //June 26, 1876//, when he and 276 of his men were ambushed and massacred by [|Crazy Horse] and his Sioux Warriors at //Little Big Horn//.

Little Big Horn was an Native American victory, where George Armstrong [|Custer] and his men were defeated and killed on June 25, 1876.

5. How:The Sioux, Cheyenne, were lead by sitting and crazy horse. Sitting Bull died from a shot in the knee.

Sitting Bull and some of his followers escaped to Canada, but returned (1881) on a promise of a pardon and were settled on a reservation.

5. Why This battle started because the whites kept invading the Native Americans land and breaking their treaties.

Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
Little Big Horn: Sites I used for Research:

Why? I think the Indians were right to attack the Americans because they kept breaking their treaties and invading their lands.

[|http://rrwww.nps.gov/libi/index.htm]

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