| LC control no. | sh2016000251 |
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| LC classification | E83.876 |
| Topical heading | Black Hills War, 1876-1877 |
| Variant(s) | Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1876 Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1876-1877 Dakota Indians--Wars, 1876 Dakota Indians--Wars, 1876-1877 Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 Lakota Indians--Wars, 1876-1877 |
| See also | Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895 |
| Found in | Work cat: North American Indian thought and culture database, Nov. 20, 2015: (subject: Great Sioux War, 1876-1877) Encyclopedia Britannica, Nov. 20, 2015: Black Hills (Black Hills War (1876), the high point of which was the Battle of the Little Bighorn) Indian Country Today Media Network, March 16, 2012: Three sites important to Native history named National Landmarks (Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, a war that culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn) Benson, Black Hills War: a history of the conflict with Sioux Indians, 1876-1877. Greene, Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877, 1994 : Introduction ("The Great Sioux War comprised a series of sequential battles and skirmishes that arrayed elements of the U.S. Army against diverse tribes of Teton, or western, Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians during a period of fifteen months from March 1876 through May 1877. The conflict embraced fifteen encounters of varying magnitude that ranged across an extensive landscape encompassing parts of present-day Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota...The two tribes involved in the Great Sioux War, the Teton Sioux, or Lakotas, and the Northern Cheyennes, while linguistically unrelated, nonetheless possessed cultural similarities that had influenced their parallel courses by the mid-1870s.") Collins, Atlas of the Sioux Wars, 2nd Ed.: Part III. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. Wikipedia, Feb. 3, 2016 (The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States) |
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