<span>provoked by a treaty-violating ultimatum to surrender their sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa), where an expedition under Custer discovered gold in 1874. In June 1876, driven by converging army columns, a unique concentration of Sioux and Cheyenne/Arapaho in southern Montana first repulsed a 1, 000-man column under Crook at the Rosebud and then destroyed Custer's command at Little Bighorn. </span>
He expanded the idea in the New York Morning News in December, invoking “the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.
