The Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Evaluate the political causes, military campaigns, and profound historical consequences of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Evaluate the political causes, military campaigns, and profound historical consequences of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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9th Grade · Social Studies · US-WY-SS
11 lessons
Analyze patterns of historical causation, technological revolutions, nineteenth-century Plains conflicts, and critical events shaping modern Wyoming and Indigenous realities.
Describe patterns of change (cause and effect) and evaluate how past events impacted future events and the modern world.
Describe patterns of change (cause and effect) and evaluate how past events impact current realities for Indigenous Tribes of Wyoming (e.g., migration, evolution of tribal leadership, treaties, Powder River Expedition, Red Cloud's War, Great Sioux War, Battle of Little Bighorn, land cessions, and 1905 Shoshone Reservation Congressional Act).