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- Indian battle/massacre near Fort Phil Kearny, Dakota Territory (in present-day northern Wyoming) in 1866. A tribe of Oglala Sioux under Chief Red Cloud, provoked by the building of the Bozeman Trail through their hunting ground in southern Montana, massacred a U.S. army unit commanded by Captain W. J. Fetterman. Fetterman crossed over Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of the Indian attackers and he and his 80 men were killed.
- In December 1890, Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp. 200 Sioux men, women, and children were killed. This was part of the Ghost Dance movement, a last effort of the American Indians to resist US government control and return to their way of life.
- In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated U.S. General Custer's troops who tried to force them back on to the reservation, Custer and all his men died.