Freedom Fighters

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overnment treated the Native Americans poorly, taking away the land that they had previously promised them. Crazy Horse would lead surprise attacks against the U.S. Army to try and get the land back that the U.S. was using to build forts, roads, and to obtain gold. Finally, in 1868 a treaty was created that gave the Sioux land from the Missouri River to the Black Hills, it would also give the Native Americans rations. However, the peace did not last long. In 1874 gold was discovered in the Black Hills, the U.S. then decided to move the Native Americans to reservations, offering the tribes money, which they would never receive. Crazy Horse, along with Sitting Bull the chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux moved to the hills along with a few thousand warriors and their families. The U.S. government b!
egan to assemble a group of thirty- five hundred soldiers to remove Crazy Horse, along with his warriors. (Kallen 78-80) The battles that were fought would make many Americans made because they believed that the U.S. Army should be able to “handleâ€...