Little Bighorn

June 26, 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn ended with the defeat of the 7th Cavalry of the US Army. Lieutenant  Colonel George Custer and his battalion were decimated. 

Primarily, the battle has been remembered as "Custer's Last Stand." This view trivializes the accomplishment by the Native American forces in the battle. 

(Custer)

This battle was a part of the Sioux Wars, which occurred because many Native Americans did not want to relocate in the face of white expansion. Chief Sitting Bull established the Sun Dance alliance in order to raise a force to pose a threat to the US settlers and Army. 

Custer attacked the Sioux village at the Little Bighorn river without waiting for the main Army forces and without full knowledge of how many Native Americans were in the village. Custer was vastly outnumbered and within an hour, he and his men were dead. 

The Battle of Little Bighorn was the climax of Native American victory. Afterwards, the whites overtook the Native Americans and they were forced onto reservations that did not include their ancestral lands.