government including Lieutenant General William Tecumseh Sherman. In 1868, Red Cloud, or Mahpiua Luta (1822-1909), chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota Sioux, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty with 24 other tribal leaders and representatives of the U.S. These face-offs convinced Sitting Bull to never sign a treaty that would force his people onto a reservation. forces under General Alfred Sully surrounded an Indian trading village, eventually forcing the Sioux to retreat. military again at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain on July 28, 1864, when U.S. Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police officers on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1890, but is remembered for his courage in defending native lands. The ensuing Great Sioux Wars culminated in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, when Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led united tribes to victory against General George Armstrong Custer. government ignored the treaty and began to remove native tribes from their land by force. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty granted the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux, but when gold was discovered there in 1874, the U.S. 1831-1890) was a Teton Dakota Native American chief who united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against the white settlers taking their tribal land. Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill CodyвЂ™s Wild West Show.Sitting Bull and The Fort Laramie Treaty.

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