The Battle of the Little Bighorn.

... By 1876, most of the Sioux had followed Red Cloud and gone to live in the great Reservations. Although most Indians had followed and respected Red Cloud's decisions, many of the younger warriors had been against this way of life. These young Renegades, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, refused to give up their nomadic, free way of life, in favour of a humiliating, and enclosed life. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, along with their vast following of Sioux and Cheyenne renegades took to the Bighorn Mountains and used them as a base to defend themselves against the White Man. The US Government were extremely annoyed at the thought of these Indians living on the Plains with freedom, and furthermore, Gold had recently been discovered in the very mountains being inhabited by these renegades. The US army was quickly sent in to deal with them. The Indians were

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