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2007-03-10 12:30:03 · 1 answers · asked by Britney 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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Wikipedia entry for 1876:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876

January 31 - United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

June 17 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

June 25 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn. Lieutenant colonel George Armstrong Custer of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment leads a unit of 300 men in battle against the allied forces of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, counting 5000 men under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The latter emerge victorious.

November 25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).

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August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

2007-03-10 17:02:37 · answer #1 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0 0

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