Question

Why did fighting break out between American Indians and the US Army in the Black Hills region? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

The discovery of gold in the area where native american indians were living and then non compliance to move to reservations ,the US army was sent to confront them.

Custer was unaware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull  at Little Bighorn, and his forces were outnumbered and quickly overwhelmed in what became known as Custer’s Last Stand.

By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River which they called the Greasy Grass:in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked.

Answer 2

Gold was discovered in the Black Hills on land belonging to the Sioux.

Miners and settlers demanded that the government take more land from the American Indians.

The government tried to confine to reservations American Indians in the region.

Follow up question: Which famous general was defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Ans: B) Gen. George Armstrong Custer