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= The Indian Battles of Resistance =

The Battle of Little Bighorn The battle took place in 1876. For many years before this date, the Sioux and the American government had been in conflict. The Sioux nation was a powerful collection of tribes. Throughout the Nineteenth Century, they had been pushed further and further west as the white settlers expanded into the American heartland from the Thirteen Colonies on the eastern seaboard. By 1850, the Sioux nation had been cut in two by the expansion west of the white settlers. The eastern Sioux had remained in the area near the Great Lakes of America. The western Sioux had been in conflict with the government over land ownership and it was arguments with this group that lead to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The Battle of Little Bighorn The document above holds the answers to the web task.