The Era where the
Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United
States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The Battle of Little Bighorn was an important battle, for both the Indians and the United States. During the battle the Indians defeated Lieutenant Colonel Custer which he lost over 200 men which were in the Seventh Cavalry. Although this battle was a great …show more content…
The Indians had then won a great victory on that day, also the battle of Little Bighorn would become the worst defeat the United States Army has ever had in the long Plain Indian war. After the battle was done and the Army was out of sight the Indians went back to the battlefield and started to mutilate the bodies of all the soldiers. The reason for this is because the Indians thought that a mutilated body would not be able to go the afterlife which would force them to walk the earth for eternity. Custer was the only person not to have his body mutilated or scalped because the Indians though he was an innocent bystander because he wearing buckskins instead of a uniform.
Also, he wasn’t scalp because of how short his hair was and the Indians thought that it wasn’t enough hair to be able to scalp him. Myths and rumors started shortly after the battle was over about why they left Custer’s body unharmed to this day no one now the real reason why they had left it. With the people outrage of Custer’s death the United States redrew the boundaries of the Black
Hill reservation and started to allow whites to claim the land. Within five years of the battle of Little Bighorn all of the Sioux and Cheyenne were forced back into their
Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United
States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The Battle of Little Bighorn was an important battle, for both the Indians and the United States. During the battle the Indians defeated Lieutenant Colonel Custer which he lost over 200 men which were in the Seventh Cavalry. Although this battle was a great …show more content…
The Indians had then won a great victory on that day, also the battle of Little Bighorn would become the worst defeat the United States Army has ever had in the long Plain Indian war. After the battle was done and the Army was out of sight the Indians went back to the battlefield and started to mutilate the bodies of all the soldiers. The reason for this is because the Indians thought that a mutilated body would not be able to go the afterlife which would force them to walk the earth for eternity. Custer was the only person not to have his body mutilated or scalped because the Indians though he was an innocent bystander because he wearing buckskins instead of a uniform.
Also, he wasn’t scalp because of how short his hair was and the Indians thought that it wasn’t enough hair to be able to scalp him. Myths and rumors started shortly after the battle was over about why they left Custer’s body unharmed to this day no one now the real reason why they had left it. With the people outrage of Custer’s death the United States redrew the boundaries of the Black
Hill reservation and started to allow whites to claim the land. Within five years of the battle of Little Bighorn all of the Sioux and Cheyenne were forced back into their