Sioux War

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Washington Times

In 1853 they were removed to Crow River, and in 1856 to Blue Earth, Minnesota, where they were just getting a start in civilized pursuits when the Sioux war broke out, and the people of Minnesota demanded their removal.

From Project Gutenberg