Battle of Little Big Horn

In 1876 the United States army planned a campaign against the hostile Native Americans. They surrendered to the United States within a year and relocated in what is now Oklahoma. But Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada. His force was only about 260 men, and he was the only one under command. The United States offered them a promise of amnesty in 1881. This brought white prospectors into the Sioux territory. Wovoka developed and introduced a “ghost dance. Custer was supposed to join Terry at the junction of the Bighorn and the Little Bighorn rivers, but he disregarded this arrangement. When he got out he settled in a reservation and still continued to be hostile to settlers. The Native American’s had between 2500 and 4000 men. aries if the Sioux’s reservation in the Black Hills. Custer’s regiment was unaware of the strength of the Native Americans. Many of the Sioux left to join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse back at the Bozeman Trail. In a few months later it was reported that while resisting confinement, he was killed by a solider.