The deadline passes and Great Sioux War begins between the U.S. and the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. On June 25, 1876, Custer and the 7th Cavalry are overwhelmingly defeated at the Battle of Little ...

marked upon the Land Office map by a green spot, surpassed in size only by the reservations of the Indian Territory, is to be thrown open to settlers. This is the great Sioux Reservation in ...