Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

In the summer of 1876, tensions continued to grow between Native Americans and the United States military. Back in 1868, tribal leaders from Lakota, Arapaho, and Norther Cheyenne communities signed the Treaty of Ft. Laramie. The agreement created the “Great Sioux Reserve," a Native reservation on the land we now know as South Dakota. The tribes were promised peace and freedom from the American government, but by 1872, surveying for the Northern …