An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young... by Debbie Reese

Sitting Bull lived another 14 years and was murdered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by an Indian Agent. military custody, as that government worked steadily to disarm the nations of the western plains and force their people onto reservations.

military that week.īut the victory against the United States was short-lived. Custer and his men died in the battle, and the united tribes claimed victory over the U.S. Sioux chief Sitting Bull and Lakota leader Crazy Horse directed their warriors against Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer’s regiment of over 225 cavalry men near the Little Bighorn River. Most textbooks call this the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but Lakota and Cheyenne people, especially those whose ancestors defended the encampment villages, know it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Later that month, Custer and the Seventh Cavalry prepared to attack the encampment, but warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull successfully intercepted them. In June 1876, a large encampment of nontreaty Sioux and Cheyenne families was gathered along the Little Bighorn River.

On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn) Lakota, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defended Sioux and Cheyenne families living in south central Montana in a battle with the Seventh Regiment of the United States Cavalry.Īs explained in An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza: Marker stone at the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young... by Debbie Reese