Sioux War

noun

U.S. History.

1. any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.

Example Sentences

In the wake of the Great Sioux War—or Sitting Bull’s War, as Mr. Hedren refers to it—there would come an “unimaginable future of continued privation, death, a duplicitous government, land theft, the complete annihilation of the last of the once mighty buffalo herds, and Indian lives inexorably transformed.”

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Mr. Hedren is at his best when he relates the American Indian versions of the 1876 battles of the Rosebud and Little Big Horn, the two principal clashes of the Great Sioux War.

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As an encyclopedic recounting of the battles, skirmishes and other encounters of the Great Sioux War and of its antecedents, however, “Sitting Bull’s War” succeeds admirably, and is a worthwhile addition to the literature on the Indian Wars of the West that students of that era will welcome.

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General George Armstrong Custer and his forces of the 7th Cavalry came to the Little Bighorn for what they hoped would be the decisive victory in the Great Sioux War and the quelling of the last of the Indian uprisings against relocation to reservations as settlers pushed ever further west.

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Crazy Horse escaped to Nebraska but was captured in 1877, officially ending the Great Sioux War.

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