Battle of Little Bighorn

THE BATTLE OF GREASY GRASS

• Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes vs. US Army
• June 25–26, 1876
• Part of the Sioux War

THE GREAT SIOUX WAR

• US army pushing the Indians west for colonist settlement in the Black Hills
• 1876
• Sioux and Cheyenne refused to move

7TH CAVALRY REGIMENT

• a United States Army patrolled western plains for raiding native Americans
• Marched 181,692 miles across Montana, Kansas, and Dakota territories