So, What Happened?

In 1874, General Custer led an expedition to the black hills, which at that time, was owned by the Sioux tribe. He was there to see if the rumors of gold in the hills were true. They were. Soon after, miners started to pour into the area. Some older leaders were just going to give in to the requests of the Americans. Some of the younger Chiefs, like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, wanted to fight them. Sitting Bull Urged the Sioux to oppose the Americans offer’s to buy back the Black Hills from them.
In late 1975, reservation agents ordered the Sioux to be in the reservation by the end of January 1876, and remain there. They didn’t and continued to hunt outside their given area. Later, a large group of Sioux and others met in South-East Montana, along the Little Bighorn River.
In June of 25 1876, saw Custer march over 200 men into a village that probably had over 2000 Sioux Warriors in it. This was when the battle of Little Bighorn began. Custer and his men were killed by the Sioux.
Though the Sioux won this battle, they could not win against the Americans. The American Army stopped the town from getting food and starved the Sioux into surrender.
After all this, Crazy Horse gave himself up at the Red Cloud agency in Nebraska. That September, he was shot during a fight and bled to death in a reservation jail.
Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada, but returned in1881, and surrendered.

Who Was...General Custer

Who was General George Armstrong Custer?

• ~General Custer was born on December 5, 1839 and died June 25, 1876




• ~He was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.

~He Married Elizabeth Clift Bacon in 1864

Who Was...Crazy Horse

'Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko) was known among his people as a farsighted chief, committed to safeguarding the tradition and principles of the Sioux (Lakota) way of life. Distinguished by his fierceness in battle, he was a great general who led his people in a war against the invasion of their homeland by the white man. As a fierce enemy, Crazy Horse summoned the anger, fear — and respect — of the U.S. Government and its army'
From http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3755.html

~Crazy Horse was born in 1844 at Bear Butte. When he was born, his name was Curley.

~His Father was also named Crazy Horse and was a respected medicine man.

~ Crazy Horse "Senior" Gave his name to his son when, at the age is sixteen, he saved Hump, a Sioux warrior, from some soliders.

~Crazy Horse was a member of a medicine society called the Thunder Cult, and he used visions to lead his people.

"On June 25, 1876, Crazy Horse lead an attack on Custer and his 7th Cavalry. This was at the "Battle of Little Bighorn" or "Custer's Last Stand." In the aftermath of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse did not take his band to Canada, as did Sitting Bull, Gall, and others, but he remained in Montana to continue fighting the army's forces under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles. By 1877 the buffalo was almost extinct and his starving people were put on the reservation. Crazy Horse had battled many soldiers but had still not managed to put a stop to the occupation of more and more whites to his native home. After discovering that resistence was futile, Crazy Horse surrendered to Col. Miles in May 1877. He was arrested on September 5, 1877. After that Crazy Horse was taken to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where he was to be confined as a prisoner. Not wishing to be locked up like an animal, Crazy Horses resisted, and was killed by a bayonet thrust through his kidney. This scuffle was with a group of soldiers and Indian police. Crazy Horse died at age thirty-six (36) years of age. Which one of the men delivered the killing blow to Crazy Horse is not certain."
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3755.html

Who was... Sitting Bull

Who was Sitting Bull?
~Sitting Bull was born in a tepee Village in Dakota grass lands, in 1831.
~He grew up to be a respected leader of his people.

~He did not fight in the battle of Little Big Horn, in 1877.

~After their Victory at little Big Horn, the American Indians were pursued by the army.

~In 1877, Sitting Bull lead some of his followers to safety across the border to Canada.

~In 1881 he then returned to The United States.

~When he handed over his rifle to the American Soldiers, he told them proudly, "I wish it to be remembered that i was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.".

~ He continued to fight for the rights of his people in other ways.

~He criticized the American Government for neglecting the Native Americans on their
reservations.

~1885, the famous Showman, Buffalo Bill Cody, offered Sitting Bull a job as a leader to become an attraction of his travelling Wild West Show, Sitting Bull refused the job.

~ 'Ghost Dance' Movement began and the government accused Sitting Bull of being the leader.

~In December of 1890, they sent armed policemen to arrest him.

~One of Sitting Bulls own people, the Sioux, shot him dead as he stepped out of the door of his cabin on the reservation.

HIstory Assignment.

For our History Assignment, we were told to teach the class about an important event in American History. I Chose the Topic 'Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Big Horn', so here it is...