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A 12 page paper that describes the events that surrounded the Battle of Little Bighorn and the impact this battle had on both the white man and the red man. Discussed are the situations that led up to the battle as well as the situation that developed in its aftermath. Bibliography lists 9 sources. LCBighrn.doc
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from us without price" (Spotted Tail, 1876; PG; National Archives and Records Administration, 1996; http://www.nara. gov/exhall/originals/sioux.html). This opinion, held by Sioux Chief Spotted Tail, was shared by many members of
the various North American Indian tribes that claimed the northwestern portion of the continent during the late 1800s. The tribes that had historically occupied this portion of what is
now the United States had been joined in recent years by others, eastern tribes who had been removed from their traditional territories by the growing expansion movement of the American
states. Many of the dislocated eastern tribes had been long been settled onto reservations that fringed the traditional territories of the Sioux, also known as the Lakota tribe, and
the Northern Cheyenne who called what is now the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming their ancestral homes. Western expansion was not yet over, however, by the 1870s, nor was the
conflict between the expanding white man and the red man who was seen as standing in the way of this expansion. The Black Hills of South Dakota were traditionally considered
as sacred lands by the Sioux Indians. Noting this, the U.S. government ceded these lands to the Sioux tribes through the agreement that is known as the Treaty of
1868 (Little Big Horn Battlefield Archaeology & History, 1998; http://www.custerbattle.com/home/ec_hist.htm). This agreement created the Great Sioux Reservation, and many of the Sioux tribes agreed to the resolution and signed
the treaty. Others did not, but this was not generally viewed as a problem by the government in 1868, for the badlands in and around the reservation held very
little interest for the United States. This attitude changed, however, when gold was discovered among the Black Hills in 1877 and prospectors and mining operations began to move into
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