The Importance Of The Battle Of Little Bighorn

The importance of the Battle of Little Bighorn to the United States was for the U.S Cavalry to take the tribal land in the Black Hills which belonged to the Sioux Nation. On the other hand, the importance of the Battle of Little Bighorn to the American Indians was to fight for their tribal lands. The United States wanted to buy the land from the American Indians after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer found gold in them. Besides the land being their tribal land which the tribes considered sacred, a treaty was also signed years back by the United States and the American Indians. The purpose of the war was also to end Indian war and pressurize and force them into the reservation.
The major key historical figures of the Battle of Little Bighorn