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The Sand Creek Massacre
It was an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members -
Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 Fight in the Dakota Territory's Black Hills, where Custer's Seventh Cavalry was slaughtered as they sought to suppress the Sioux and return them to their reservation. In the battle, Crazy Horse led the Sioux and killed each of Custer's men. In a series of battles, the Indians were later pursued across the plains and crushed. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
1890 battle where the Ghost Dance cult was stamped out in the Dakota Sioux. 200 Indian men, women, and children, as well as 29 invading soldiers, died.
