Once reason the Battle of Little Big Horn was important was because it spurred funding to eliminate the Native Americans. It was considered to be the Indians last stand in keeping the "white man" from expanding west.
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn marked the end of the free Native American on the Plains. After the battle, almost all of the plains tribes were forced onto reservations.
Ulysses S. Grant was the President of the United States during the Battle of Little Big Horn in June of 1876. The Battle of Little Big Horn took place in Montana between the U.S. Calvary and Native Americans that included the Sioux. The battle was won by the Native Americans.
The residents of that community were Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe.
Custer led soldiers into battle with little thought toward their or his safety, he chased Native people across the US territories, and he led nearly 300 men, including himself and his brother, into a bloody battle that ended in their death at the Little Big Horn.
Sitting Bull was the leader of the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne forces that defeated the 7th cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn, in retaliation for Custer's continued attacks on civilian targets. Rain-In-The-Face and Crazy Horse were two of the other major Amerindian leaders.
They had their victories here and there. The Fetterman Massacre comes to mind. However, the one everyone knows is the Greasy Grass, aka Little Big Horn, July 25, 1876.