FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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In response to the destruction of Fort Knox earlier.
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To drive the Lakota Sioux back onto the reservation.
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As a training mission for new recruits.
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To protect the Lakota Sioux from their enemies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of the Little Bighorn happened because the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, in which the U.S. government guaranteed to the Lakota and Dakota (Yankton) as well as the Arapaho exclusive possession of the Dakota Territory west of the Missouri River, had been broken.
Detailed explanation-2: -Battle of the Little Bighorn: Mounting Tensions Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (c. 1840-77), leaders of the Sioux on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to Indian reservations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Background to the Battle of the Little Bighorn The plan was for Custer’s cavalry and Brigadier General Alfred Terry’s infantry to rendezvous with troops under the command of Colonel John Gibbon and Brigadier General George Crook. They’d then find the Native Americans, surround them and force their surrender.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. 7th Cavalry, a force of 700 men, suffered a major defeat while commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (formerly a brevetted major general during the American Civil War).