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The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.
The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several eastern bands of Dakota collectively known as the Santee Sioux.
Dakota Sioux: Goshute War (1863) Colorado War (1864–65) Part of the Sioux Wars United States: Cheyenne Arapaho: Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington; Snake War (1864–68) United States: Snake Indians: Hualapai War (1865–70) Part of the Yavapai Wars United States: Hualapai Yavapai Havasupai: Black Hawk's War (1865 ...
Colonel Nelson A. Miles led the 5th United States Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1876 from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, up the Missouri River on a paddlewheel boat from Yankton, South Dakota to the Yellowstone River, to help subdue the Sioux, and Cheyenne, who had claimed a major victory that summer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War.A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and six civilians were attacked by several hundred Lakota Sioux warriors.
The Dull Knife Fight, or the Battle on the Red Fork, part of the Great Sioux War of 1876, was fought on November 25, 1876, in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming between soldiers and scouts of the United States Army and warriors of the Northern Cheyenne.
Sioux Wars (5 C, 23 P) L. Battle of the Little Bighorn (1 C, 54 P) P. Pine Ridge Campaign (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Battles involving the Sioux"